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A Collision of Noble Goals: Protecting Human Subjects, Improving Health Care,and a Research Agenda for Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2008

Sue Tolleson-Rinehart
Sue Tolleson-Rinehart
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Atul Gawande is a surgeon who began creating vivid word paintings of the performance ofthe American health care system in The New Yorker's pages while he wasstill a resident. Those of us who are immersed in, and charged with measuring, thatsystem—as I have been for the last decade—find his “Annals of Medicine” column's evocationsof heroic system successes and frightening system failures true to the processes we moreprosaically try to analyze and evaluate. In December 2007 Gawande published a New Yorker essay called “The Checklist,” followed just days later by an op-ed piece inthe New York Times (Gawande 2007a; 2007b).

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Symposium—Protecting Human Research Participants, IRBs, and Political Science Redux
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 507 - 511
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2008

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