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Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It
by Josh Lerner Adam B. JaffeThe United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic innovation. Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of how recent changes in patenting--an institutional process that was created to nurture innovation--have wreaked havoc on innovators, businesses, and economic productivity. Jaffe and Lerner, who have spent the past two decades studying the patent system, show how legal changes initiated in the 1980s converted the system from a stimulator of innovation to a creator of litigation and uncertainty that threatens the innovation process itself. In one telling vignette, Jaffe and Lerner cite a patent litigation campaign brought by a a semi-conductor chip designer that claims control of an entire category of computer memory chips. The firm's claims are based on a modest 15-year old invention, whose scope and influenced were broadened by secretly manipulating an industry-wide cooperative standard-setting body. Such cases are largely the result of two changes in the patent climate, Jaffe and Lerner contend. First, new laws have made it easier for businesses and inventors to secure patents on products of all kinds, and second, the laws have tilted the table to favor patent holders, no matter how tenuous their claims. After analyzing the economic incentives created by the current policies, Jaffe and Lerner suggest a three-pronged solution for restoring the patent system: create incentives to motivate parties who have information about the novelty of a patent; provide multiple levels of patent review; and replace juries with judges and special masters to preside over certain aspects of infringement cases. Well-argued and engagingly written, Innovation and Its Discontents offers a fresh approach for enhancing both the nation's creativity and its economic growth.
Innovation and the State: Finance, Regulation, and Justice
by Cristie FordFrom social media to mortgage-backed securities, innovation carries both risk and opportunity. Groups of people win, and lose, when innovation changes the ground rules. Looking beyond formal politics, this new book by Cristie Ford argues that we need to recognize innovation, and financial innovation in particular, as a central challenge for regulation. Regulation is at the leading edge of politics and policy in ways that we have not yet fully grasped. Seemingly innocuous regulatory design choices have clear and profound practical ramifications for many of our most cherished social commitments. Innovation is a complex phenomenon that needs to be understood not only in technical terms, but also in human ones. Using financial regulation as her primary example, Ford argues for a fresh approach to regulation, which recognizes innovation for the regulatory challenge that it is, and which binds our cherished social values and our regulatory tools ever more tightly together.
Innovation and the Transformation of Consumer Law: National and International Perspectives
by Dan Wei Claudia Lima Marques James P. NehfThis book covers technologies that pose new challenges for consumer policy, creative developments that can help protect consumers’ economic interests, innovative approaches to addressing perennial consumer concerns, and the challenges entailed by emerging ways of creating and delivering consumer products and services. In addition, it reflects on past successes and failures of consumer law and policy, explores opportunities for moving consumer law in a different direction, and discusses potential threats to consumer welfare, especially in connection with the changing political landscape in many parts of the world. Several chapters examine consumer law in individual countries, while others have an international focus.
Innovation in Environmental Leadership: Critical Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Leadership Research)
by Benjamin W. Redekop Deborah Rigling Gallagher Rian SatterwhiteInnovation in Environmental Leadership offers innovative approaches to leadership from a post-industrial and ecological vantage point. Chapters in this collection are written by leading scholars and practitioners of environmental leadership from around the globe, and are informed by a variety of critical perspectives, including post-heroic approaches, systems thinking, and the emerging insights of Critical Leadership Studies (CLS). By taking the natural environment seriously as a foundational context for leadership, Innovation in Environmental Leadership offers fresh insights and compelling visions of leadership pertinent to 21st century environmental and social challenges. Concepts and understandings of leadership emerged as part of an extractive industrial system; this work asks its readers to re-think what leadership looks like in an ecologically sustainable biological system. This book provides fresh insights and critical perspectives on the vibrant and growing field of environmental leadership. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest both to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners. It addresses the topics with regard to leadership theory and environmental leadership and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of sustainability, environmental ethics, natural resource management, environmental studies, business management, public policy, and environmental management.
Innovation in Medical Technology: Ethical Issues and Challenges
by Donald Kennedy Margaret L. EatonThis thought-provoking study examines the ethical, legal, and social problems that arise with cutting-edge medical technology. Using as examples four powerful and largely unregulated technologies—off-label use of drugs, innovative surgery, assisted reproduction, and neuroimaging—Margaret L. Eaton and Donald Kennedy illustrate the difficult challenges faced by clinicians, researchers, and policy makers who seek to advance the frontiers of medicine safely and responsibly.Supported by medical history and case studies and drawing on reports from dozens of experts, the authors address important practical, ethical, and policy issues. They consider topics such as the responsible introduction of new medical products and services, the importance of patient consent, the extent of the duty to mitigate harm, and the responsibility to facilitate access to new medical therapies.This work's insights into the nature and consequences of medical innovation contribute to the national debate on how best to protect patients while fostering innovation and securing benefits.
Innovation in Public Planning: Calculate, Communicate and Innovate
by Aksel Hagen Ulla HigdemThis book contributes to the discourse on planning theory by accentuating the perspective of public innovation. Extending planning theory's traditional two major perspectives - 'Communicate' and 'Calculate' - the book argues that contemporary planning theory should incorporate 'Innovate' as a third perspective. It highlights the multitude of new perspectives that innovative planning can bring to bear on planning theory, as well as showing how the interplay between the three perspectives - 'Communicate', 'Calculate' and 'Innovate' - can help to address vital issues in contemporary societal development.
Innovation in Scientific Research and Emerging Technologies: A Challenge to Ethics and Law
by Laura PalazzaniThis book discusses the ethical and legal challenges related to innovations, with reference to both scientific research and emerging technologies. It analyzes scientific research with specific reference to experimentation, with a focus on vulnerable people (minors, women, people in developing countries), compassionate care, biobanks and ethical committees. In the context of emerging technologies, it examines the ethical and legal aspects of neuroscience, genomics, ICT, big data, biometrics, converging technologies, enhancement and robotics. The book provides conceptual tools and categories to help readers understand and acquire a critical awareness of the current debates in the field.
Innovation in the Public Sector: Smarter States, Services and Citizens (Public Administration and Information Technology #39)
by Fatih DemirThe book discusses smart governments and innovation in the public sector. In hopes of arriving at a clear definition of innovation in the field of public administration, the volume provides a wide survey of global policies and practices, especially those aimed at reducing bureaucracy and using information-communication technologies in public service delivery. Chapters look at current applications across countries and multiple levels of government, from public innovation labs in the UK to AI in South Korea. Providing concrete examples of innovation culture at work in public institutions, this volume will be of use to researchers and students studying new public management, public service delivery, and innovation as well as practitioners and professionals working in various public agencies.
Innovation, Democracy and Efficiency: Exploring the Innovation Puzzle within the European Union’s Regional Development Policies (Palgrave Advances in Regional and Urban Economics)
by Raffaella Y. Nanetti Francesco GrilloEndogenous growth theory has significantly impacted most of the developing and developed countries, shifting priorities of industrial policies towards innovation. In line with this trend, the European Union significantly increased its budgetary allocation for R&D. However, statistical data show a weak correlation between R&D expenditure and the acceleration of economic growth. Regional innovation policies display divergent returns according to different institutional conditions and policy choices.Grillo and Nanetti attempt to understand the reasons that lie behind differences in performance. Their results show that better performing innovation strategies require the following factors: clear choices of locally congruent smart specialization; strong capacity of public investment to stimulate additional private investment; clear distribution of responsibilities for decision-making and independence of policy implementation from political interference; and problem solving partnerships amongst innovators, universities, and governments that pre-exist the programmes. These factors point to a relationship between democracy (defined as openness of policy-making) and innovation (as technology-enabled growth) which is explored throughout this book.
Innovation, Economic Development, and Intellectual Property in India and China: Comparing Six Economic Sectors (ARCIALA Series on Intellectual Assets and Law in Asia)
by Kung-Chung Liu Uday S. RacherlaThis open access book analyses intellectual property codification and innovation governance in the development of six key industries in India and China. These industries are reflective of the innovation and economic development of the two economies, or of vital importance to them: the IT Industry; the film industry; the pharmaceutical industry; plant varieties and food security; the automobile industry; and peer production and the sharing economy.The analysis extends beyond the domain of IP law, and includes economics and policy analysis. The overarching concern that cuts through all chapters is an inquiry into why certain industries have developed in one country and not in the other, including: the role that state innovation policy and/or IP policy played in such development; the nature of the state innovation policy/IP policy; and whether such policy has been causal, facilitating, crippling, co-relational, or simply irrelevant. The book asks what India and China can learn from each other, and whether there is any possibility of synergy.The book provides a real-life understanding of how IP laws interact with innovation and economic development in the six selected economic sectors in China and India. The reader can also draw lessons from the success or failure of these sectors.
Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Growth
by Mark Rogers Christine GreenhalghWhat drives innovation? How does it contribute to the growth of firms, industries, and economies? And do intellectual property rights help or hurt innovation and growth? Uniquely combining microeconomics, macroeconomics, and theory with empirical analysis drawn from the United States and Europe, this book introduces graduate students and advanced undergraduates to the complex process of innovation. By addressing all the major dimensions of innovation in a single text, Christine Greenhalgh and Mark Rogers are able to show how outcomes at the microlevel feed through to the macro-outcomes that in turn determine personal incomes and job opportunities. In four sections, this textbook comprehensively addresses the nature of innovation and intellectual property, the microeconomics and macroeconomics of innovation, and economic policy at the firm and macroeconomic levels. Among the topics fully explored are the role of intellectual property in creating incentives to innovate; the social returns of innovation; the creation and destruction of jobs by innovation; whether more or fewer intellectual property rights would give firms better incentives to innovate; and the contentious issues surrounding international treaties on intellectual property. Clearly organized and highly readable, the book is designed to be accessible to readers without advanced economics backgrounds. Most technical materials appear in boxed inserts and appendixes, and numerous graphs and tables elucidate abstract concepts. Provides a comprehensive overview of the economic causes and effects of innovation Covers microeconomics, macroeconomics, theoretical and empirical analysis, and policy Includes up-to-date coverage of trends and policy in intellectual property and research and development Features mathematics appendix and keywords and questions to assist learning and teaching Outline lecture slides are available online
Innovations in Land Rights Recognition, Administration, and Governance
by Paul Munro-Faure Clarissa Augustinus Stig Enemark Klaus DeiningerThe importance of good land governance to strengthen women's land rights, facilitate land-related investment, transfer land to better uses, use it as collateral, and allow effective decentralization through collection of property taxes has long been recognized. The challenges posed by recent global developments, especially urbanization, increased and more volatile food prices, and climate change have raised the profile of land and the need for countries to have appropriate land policies. However, efforts to improve country-level land governance are often frustrated by technical complexities, institutional fragmentation, vested interests, and lack of a shared vision on how to move towards good land governance and measure progress in concrete settings. Recent initiatives have recognized the important challenges this raises and the need for partners to act in a collaborative and coordinated fashion to address them. The breadth and depth of the papers included in this volume, all of which were presented at the World Bank's Annual Conference on Land Policy and Administration, illustrate the benefits from such collaboration. They are indicative not only of the diversity of issues related to land governance but, more importantly, highlight that, even though the topic is complex and politically challenging, there is a wealth of promising new approaches to improving land governance through innovative technologies, country-wide policy dialogue, and legal and administrative reforms. The publication is based on an on-going partnership between the World Bank, the International Federation of Surveyors, the Global Land Tool Network and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization provide tools that can help to address land governance in practice and at scale. It is our hope that this volume will be of use to increase awareness of and support to the successful implementation of innovative approaches that can help to not only improve land governance, but also thereby contribute to the well-being of the poorest and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
Innovative CSR: From Risk Management to Value Creation
by Walter Leal Filho Samuel O. Idowu Céline LoucheBy and large, corporations of the 21st century have come to realise that their obligations to societies in terms of corporate social responsibility are fourfold: economic, ethical, altruistic and strategic. Meeting these four responsibilities is crucial to their survival in their various markets and industries; it also requires them to rewrite their previously less socially responsible business models in order to do so. All indications continue to suggest that it is those organisations that are perceived to be socially responsible by stakeholders in modern markets that survive and prosper. Corporations have equally realised that by being innovative in all things – including their CSR activities and initiatives – they will add value to the so-called bottom line, to the positive contributions they make to society and to how they are perceived by their key stakeholders. However, many criticisms have been made of CSR in its current form, often related to the lack of value that it generates within the enterprise and the fact that it offers only a partial and short-term response to the full challenges of sustainable development. The time has come to shift the CSR focus away from risk management towards a more progressive and entrepreneurial approach that seeks to create value and identify sustainable opportunities for strategic innovation. This book aims to explore, inspire and support creative, innovative and strategic CSR. "Innovation" in this book means new products, services and technologies and, in addition, new organisational and institutional systems, structures and new business models that empower the organisation to advance strategically in an ever more competitive business world. Both research and practice show that CSR has mainly been approached in terms of value protection and risk management, where the main objective has been to protect companies' existing assets or avoid scandals. Therefore, in many cases where CSR remains at the forefront of business activity, it does not lead to fundamental changes and is not yet integrated as a strategic component where it could create value, generate new ideas and open new opportunities. How do corporate entities shift their attention from risk management to value creation? This is the key question that this book attempts to answer, both theoretically and empirically as well as through real case studies and experiences. With contributions from a crème de la crème of scholars from 12 countries, Innovative CSR gathers together a cornucopia of innovative practices that will be essential reading for academics and practitioners alike.
Innovative DUI Trial Tools
by Bruce KapsackDUI defense attorneys have many persuasion hurdles to overcome in the courtroom, but most clients cannot afford the platinum preparation level. Bruce Kapsack's Innovative DUI Trial Tools helps you deliver the defense your clients want at a price they can afford. This one-of-a-kind book from one of the country's top DUI defenders provides creative evidence, forms, arguments, and cross-examination questions ready for implementation in your next case. The book contains discovery requests, motions in limine, pattern questions for voir dire, model openings, cross-examination questions for all types of prosecution witnesses, direct examination questions for lay and expert defense witnesses, closing phrases for common issues, complete closings, and ready-to-use demonstrative evidence. Bruce Kapsack's Innovative DUI Trial Tools provides strategies and language for persuading both hearts and minds. These methods and arguments have succeeded in trial after trial, and can work for you.
Innovative Entwicklungen in den deutschen Staatsanwaltschaften: Aufgaben und Zukunft der Staatsanwaltschaft im gesellschaftlichen Wandel (Edition Forschung und Entwicklung in der Strafrechtspflege)
by Ralf Peter Anders Kirsten Graalmann-Scheerer Jan Henrik SchadyIn diesem Band setzen sich Autorinnen und Autoren aus der Wissenschaft und/oder staatsanwaltschaftlichen Praxis aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln mit der Entwicklung, der Rolle, dem aktuellen Zustand und den Anforderungen an eine moderne Staatsanwaltschaft im hierarchischen Gefüge auseinander und versuchen, Wege für eine künftige Ausrichtung sowie eine Absicherung der Staatsanwaltschaft in Deutschland als „Wächterin des Gesetzes“ in einem Rechtsstaat aufzuzeigen.
Innovative Leadership in Times of Compelling Changes: Strategies, Reflections and Tools (Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership)
by Joan MarquesThis book focuses on the need of leaders in professional and personal realms to understand the importance of innovative thinking to safeguard sustainability and enhance satisfaction and motivation among stakeholders in organizations. It provides professionals with a set of reflective stances, cautionary points, and roadmaps that enable them to do the right thing. From crisis management to spiritual practices, and from pro-social concepts to social responsibility and sustainability: the common denominator is a collective and concerted effort to develop leadership behaviors and strategies to safeguard generations to come.
Innovative Management And Firm Performance
by Maja Levi Jakšić Slađana Barjaktarović Rakočević Milan MartićThis book focuses on business firms as catalysts and agents of social and economic change, and explores the argument that sustainable development is the perfect opportunity for businesses to strengthen the evolving notion of corporate social responsibility, while achieving long-term growth through innovation, research and development.
Innovative Project Management with FIDIC Contracts (Practical Legal Guides for Construction and Technology Projects)
by Adriana SpassovaThis book provides comprehensive guidance for the implementation of the legal requirements of FIDIC contracts with a detailed application of modern project management principles. It demonstrates that the FIDIC suites for works and services contain many tools for good project management, which can complement the innovation needed today to guide sustainable development. The author’s experience in construction management, construction law, and the application of FIDIC contracts as a FIDIC engineer, a procurement/claims consultant, and a FIDIC accredited/certified adjudicator and trainer underpins this unique and much-needed book linking FIDIC contract management with project management practices and concepts. It is structured around project management knowledge areas, and details not only the FIDIC works contracts (Red/Yellow/Silver 2017 Reprint 2022, Emerald 2019, Gold 2008, and Green Book 2021) but also the project management requirements of the contract between the Employer and Engineer (White Book 2017) and the FIDIC supply-chain contracts, and explains how these all interface in project governance. Linking the project management knowledge areas from the PMBOK® and its Construction Extension with the FIDIC Body of Knowledge (FBOK), the book provides recommendations for integration of best practice and innovations. It illustrates these processes with 54 flowcharts and 16 case studies, as well as a railway scenario demonstrating the application of the book’s recommended procedures. This will be an invaluable source of practical guidance for employers, contractors, and engineers responsible for procuring and managing construction projects. It provides useful insight for technical, legal, and financial experts on the management of processes, contracts, and digital tools, with recommendations on how to tailor and use the FIDIC contracts for project success.
Innovative Services und Prozesse für Kommunen: Wie mit innovativer Prozessmodellierung die öffentliche Verwaltung bürgernäher und digitaler werden kann (essentials)
by Claudia Schneider Birgit SchenkDieses essential zeigt praxisnah, wie Innovation durch neue Geschäftsprozesse gelingen kann. Dabei dient die vorgestellte Methodik als Leitfaden, um ganzheitlich die notwendigen Aspekte der Digitalisierung, des Change-Managements wie auch der Personalentwicklung in die Geschäftsprozessmodellierung zu integrieren. Anhand von Beispielen aus ausgewählten Kommunalverwaltungen stellen die Autorinnen die Methodik vor und zeigen auf, wie es gelingt innovative Geschäftsprozesse zu gestalten.
Innovative Wirtschaftsförderungen in Deutschland: Praxisberichte, Konzepte und Zukunftsstrategien (Edition Innovative Verwaltung)
by Jürgen StemberDieses Buch stellt in 49 ausgezeichneten Projekten den Ideenreichtum der Wirtschaftsförderung auf kommunaler Ebene in Deutschland vor. Damit ist dieses Buch eine wahre Schatztruhe für Praktiker in der Wirtschaftsförderung sowie Wissenschaftler und Studierende.Die Organisatoren des „Forum deutscher Wirtschaftsförderer“ und die Hochschule Harz haben in 2019 erstmals einen bundesweiten Award „Innovative Wirtschaftsförderungen“ ausgelobt und alle kommunalen, kreisweiten und regionalen Wirtschaftsförderungen in Deutschland aufgerufen, Beiträge oder Vorschläge einzureichen. Von den insgesamt 85 Einreichungen werden in diesem Buch 49 Projekte vorgestellt, die voller innovativer und übertragbarer Ansätze stecken. Das Themenspektrum spannt sich von der Optimierung der lokalen Dienstleistungsqualität über interkommunale Kooperation, von Employer Branding im Öffentlichen Dienst bis zum Expat-Service in Kommunen, von der MINT-Förderung gegen den Fachkräftemangel bis zur kommunalen Start-up-Förderung.Aus dem Inhalt (kurz)Vorstellung von award-würdigen Projekten in der Wirtschaftsförderung12 Projekte aus Städten kleiner 100.000 Einwohner12 Projekte aus Städten mit mehr als 100.000 Einwohner16 Projekte aus Landkreisen9 Projekte aus Regionen Der InhaltTeil 1: Städte bis 100.000 EinwohnerVom Aktionsforum zur Strategie für eine Innenstadt der Zukunft – der dialogorientierte Weg der Stadt Aschaffenburg (Aschaffenburg)Internationales Netzwerkbüro: Das Sprungbrett zum Nachbarn (Bocholt)Nachhaltige Wirtschaftsförderung in der Agenda 2030 der Stadt Eltville am Rhein: Zielgruppengerechte Dialogformate und innovative Angebote für den Mittelstand und den Einzelhandel (Eltville)Die Wirtschaftsförderung Eschwege als Treiber für kommunale Wirtschafts- und Technologiepolitik durch kooperatives Netzwerkmanagement (Eschwege)Die Stadt als lernender Dienstleister: Qualitätsstandards und digitales Feedbacksystem als Instrumente einer wirtschaftsfreundlichen Verwaltung (Esslingen)„Brücken bauen“ in der Gröbenzell Halle (Halle G) auf der FFB-Schau (Gröbenzell)Steuerungstool für Regionale Transformation: Der Konstanzer-Synergie-Diamant (Konstanz)bio innovation park Rheinland – Gewerbeflächenprofilierung durch Klimaschutzmaßnahmen (Meckenheim)Fachkräfte der Zukunft – Aufbau der MINT-Region „MINThoch4 – Südliches Taubertal“ (Mergentheim)InnovationsQuartier – Eine Anleitung für das Überleben ländlicher Räume in Zeiten der digitalen Transformation (Murnau)Rheine – Standort der guten Arbeitgeber (Rheine)Der Staßfurter Online-Stellenmarkt (Staßfurt)Teil 2: Städte ab 100.000 Einwohner„Das kommt aus Bielefeld“ – Standortmarketing und Fachkräftesicherung für den Wirtschaftsstandort Bielefeld (Bielefeld)Bochums Vision von der Zukunft (Bochum)Professionelles Cluster Management als Bestandteil der innovativen Wirtschaftsförderung (Darmstadt)Wie wird man eine digitale und agile Wirtschaftsförderung? (Dortmund)CREATIVE STAGE Ruhr: Ideentank für Kreative, Aktive und Innovative aus der Metropole Ruhr (Duisburg)Der Expat Service Desk ME & DUS- Ein Service für Unternehmen und Expats in der Region Düsseldorf- Kreis Mettmann (Düsseldorf)Green Industry Park Freiburg (Freiburg)Gründerzentrum Perfekt Futur in Karlsruhe – Einblicke in erfolgreiche Wirtschaftsförderung im Bereich der Kreativwirtschaft (Karslruhe)Einführung des neuen Gründerwettbewerbs „otto zahlt deine rechnung“ der Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg (Magdeburg)Standortbindung von Studierenden – Studierendenbefragung Stadt Mannheim (Mannheim)Gründen in Potsdam – regional.transparent.vernetzt (Potsdam)Teil 3: Landkre
Inocente
by Scott TurowUna mañana Rusty Sabich, sexagenario y presidente del tribunal de apelación del condado de Kindle, descubre el cadáver de su mujer Barbara junto a él en la cama que ambos comparten. Sin embargo, espera casi un día entero antes de avisar a la policía y a los servicios de emergencias. Ni siquiera avisa a su hijo Nat. ¿Por qué?Veinte años antes el mismo hombre, entonces ayudante del fiscal del condado, fue procesado por el homicidio de su colega Carolyn Polhemus, y durante la investigación se descubrió que tenían una aventura. Tommy Molto, fiscal del distrito, se convirtió desde ese instante en su más enconado enemigo. Finalmente Rusty fue absuelto, pero veinte años después, la rivalidad entre los dos hombres sigue intacta. Tras el éxito de Presunto inocente, Scott Turow regresa con Inocente, su apasionante secuela.
Inocente para além de qualquer dúvida
by Carlos CruzLeia este livro. Por favor. Esqueça quem é o autor e ponha-se no lugar dele. Apanhará um grande susto. Porque poderia muito bem ser. Uma recolha dos argumentos e provas utilizados pela defesa de Carlos Cruz, mas ignorados pelos tribunais, que demonstram a inocência do autor e o grave erro cometido pela Justiça portuguesa: as contradições (das alegadas vítimas e dos investigadores da Polícia Judiciária); os desmentidos posteriores de algumas delas; a pressão dos jornalistas e dos investigadores sobre as testemunhas; as provas factuais, ignoradas pelo tribunal, dos locais onde decorreram os alegados crimes nas datas indicadas. O livro fala do papel dos media na criação de factos erróneos que distorceram a imagem de Carlos Cruz e até desmentidos de uma das jornalistas que mais trabalhou neste caso. Inocente para além de qualquerdúvida é um livro polémico, com informação até agora desconhecida do grande público.
Inoculated: How Science Lost Its Soul in Autism (Children’s Health Defense)
by Kent HeckenlivelyFrom the New York Times bestselling co-author of Plague of Corruption comes an explosive exposé of the CDC cover-up of the dangerous consequences of the MMR vaccine. In November of 2013, Simpson University biology professor Dr. Brian Hooker got a call from Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) working in vaccine safety. Their conversations would lead to explosive revelations that top officials at the CDC engaged in a systematic cover-up of data showing that earlier administration of the MMR vaccine caused increased rates of autism in children, particularly African American males. Many have claimed this is the greatest medical crime against African Americans since the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiments. Thompson would eventually turn over thousands of the documents to US Congressman William Poesy. Science teacher and New York Times bestselling co-author of Plague of Corruption, Kent Heckenlively, was granted access to this unprecedented trove of documents and uses them, as well as ground-breaking interviews with many of the key players in this debate, to tell the story of how vaccines have become a three-decades long disaster since passage of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act which gave pharmaceutical companies complete immunity for damages caused by their products. This updated version contains startling revelations from Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, the government's main medical witness, that as early as 2007 government attorneys were aware that at least one third of autism cases were connected to vaccinations.
Inquiring into Animal Enhancement: Model or Countermodel of Human Enhancement? (Health, Technology and Society)
by Jean Gayon Simone Bateman Sylvie Allouche Jérôme Goffette Michela MarzanoThis book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern both animals and humans.
