Background
Sapolsky, Harvey Morton was born on February 21, 1939 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Abraham and Anne Betty (Selig) Sapolsky.
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Most of us hear only bad things about the blood supply in the United States. We are told that the supply is chronically low, that most people won't donate, that we depend too much on paid and possibly unsafe donors, and that many other countries have more generous people and better blood supplies. The American Blood Supply examines these and other claims and, after a realistic consideration of the facts, its conclusions are "short on scandal and long on praise." The authors find that the blood collection agencies and the present number of blood donors (more than half the people eligible to donate whole blood, they estimate, have done so at least once) are producing efficiently, for most purposes and situations, a sufficient supply of blood components and blood-based pharmaceuticals. American plasma collections are adequate both to meet internal needs and to provide for considerable export. The book covers alternative blood collection ideologies, blood safety and disease transmission considerations, the nonprofit organizations that collect almost the entire whole blood supply, the pharmaceutical industry that collects and processes plasma (most of it from paid plasmapheresis donors), public attitudes and participation in the blood supply, comparisons with practices in other countries, and identification of important unresolved problem areas. The authors' concerns for the future of the blood supply include the governance and performance of regional blood supply monopolies and the integrity of blood collection messages delivered to the public. The three authors are faculty members at MIT. Alvin Drake's background is in operations research on the delivery of public services, Stan Finkelstein is a physician interested in medical innovation, and Harvey Sapolsky is a political scientist specializing in public organizations. This book is the fifth in the series Health and Public Policy, edited by Jeffrey Harris.
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"Excellent summary of how one of the largest systems development projects undertaken up to that point was brought to fruition. Comparable to "Managing Large Systems" in showing how to do it right, and the importance of a strong leader at the helm."
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What is the revolution sweeping telecommunications worldwide? Regulatory and legislative authorities are restructuring telecommunications industries, away from the monopoly structures that characterized telecommunications in the past, and towards increased competition, deregulation and privatization. In "The Telecommunications Revolution" international policy-makers and scholars seek to explain the roots and consequences of the changes, exploring the past and present and looking towards the future. The book's in-depth analysis of the US case, important because of its widespread international influence, is balanced by a world survey, with specific contributions on Great Britain, France, Germany and Japan, and on the politics of international telecommunications. This book should be of interest to students of media and communications, public policy, politics and business studies, and professionals in the telecommunications industry.
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Addressing all those interested in the history of American science and concerned with its future, a leading scholar of public policy explains how and why the Office of Naval Research became the first federal agency to support a wide range of scientific work in universities. Harvey Sapolsky shows that the ONR functioned as a "surrogate national science foundation" between 1946 and 1950 and argues that its activities emerged not from any particularly enlightened position but largely from a bureaucratic accident. Once involved with basic research, however, the ONR challenged a Navy skeptical of the value of independent scientific advice and established a national security rationale that gave American science its Golden Age. Eventually, the ONR's autonomy was worn away in bureaucratic struggles, but Sapolsky demonstrates that its experience holds lessons for those who are committed to the effective management of science and interested in the ability of scientists to choose the directions for their research. As military support for basic research fades, scientists are discovering that they are unprotected from the vagaries of distributive politics. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Sapolsky, Harvey Morton was born on February 21, 1939 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Abraham and Anne Betty (Selig) Sapolsky.
Bachelor, Boston University, 1961. Master of Public Administration, Harvard University, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1967.
Member faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966—2006, professor political science, 1977—2006, director communications forum, 1987-1995, director security studies program, 1989—2006. Deputy director University Health Policy Consortium, 1978-1983, associate chairman faculty, 1981-1983. Visiting professor University Michigan, 1971—1972.
Consultant Artificial Heart Assessment Panel National Heart and Lung Institute, Washington, 1972—1973. Member Ethics and Health Policy Panel Hastings (New York ) Center, 1979—1980. Member committee on Federal Research on Effect of Ionizing Radiation National Research Council, Washington, 1980—1981, member committee on Risk Perception and Communications, 1987—1988.
Member committee on technical alternatives to anti-personnel mines, 1999—2001. Member Secretary of Energy's Task Force on Alternative Futures for Department of Energy Labs, 1994—1995. Member advisory committee United States Army Command and General Staff College, since 2005.
Member educational advisory committee United States Army, since 2007.
(What is the revolution sweeping telecommunications worldw...)
( Addressing all those interested in the history of Ameri...)
( Addressing all those interested in the history of Ameri...)
("Excellent summary of how one of the largest systems deve...)
(Most of us hear only bad things about the blood supply in...)
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science (secretary section social and economic science 1968-1973), American Political Science Association, National Academy Social Insurance, Council on Foreign Relations.
Married Karen P. Stenbo, August 27, 1966.