Tomorrow's Cures Today? How to Reform the Health Research System
- William R. Best, MD, Reviewer
-
Edward Hines Jr DVA Hospital
Hines, Ill
Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text.
- KEYWORDS:
- forsdyke d: tomorrow's cures today? how to reform the health research
- book reviews (meyer hs, ed)
by Donald Forsdyke, 168 pp, with illus, $38, ISBN 90-5702-603-1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000.
The author of Tomorrow's Cures Today? Donald Forsdyke, is professor of biochemistry at Queen's University, Ontario, Canada, having doctorates in medicine and biochemistry. His basic research record includes work in DNA sequencing, genetics, evolution, leukemia, and AIDS. This volume updates and expands on a number of previously published essays. Chapters have catchy but not always informative titles.
This review is about Forsdyke's observations and recommendations relative to how granting agencies fund research. To present and critique the author's thoughts, I adopt the imaginary interview format he effectively uses in two of the book's 14 chapters. My title is: "Author Debates Thesis with Reviewer."
Reviewer: You propose to do away with conventional peer review for research funding decisions. How come?
Author: Its current purpose is to evaluate the "promise" that important advances might result …
