Publications [#259561] of Robert M. Cook-Deegan

Chapters in Books

1. Cook-Deegan, R; McGeary, M, The Jewel in the federal crown?: History, politics, and the National Institutes of Health, in History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In, edited by Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, Lawton R. Burns, History and Health Policy in the United States (2006), pp. 176-201, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
   (last updated on 2016/12/04)

   Abstract:
   © 2006 by Rutgers, The State University.The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States' (and the world's) largest single funder of biomedical research, have grown enormously since World War II. Over this period, health research grew faster than other kinds of research, and the growth was greater in the United States than in other countries, in both absolute and relative terms. What are the reasons for this exceptional- and consistent-growth over six decades?.