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Acceptable Risks : Politics...
Complex and risky technologies--technologies such as new drugs for the treatment of AIDS that promise great benefits to our society but carry significant risks--pose many problems for political leaders and the policy makers responsible for overseeing them. Public agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration are told by political superiors not to inhibit important technological advances and may even be charged with promoting such development but must also make sure that no major accidents occur under their watch. Given the large costs associated with catastrophic accidents, the general public and elected officials often demand reliable or failure-free management of these technologies and have little tolerance for the error. Research in this area has lead to a schism between those who argue that it is possible to have reliable management techniques and safely manage complex technologies and others who contend that such control is difficult at best. In this book C.F. Larry Heimann advances an important solution to this problem by developing a general theory of organizational reliability and agency decision making. The book looks at both external and internal influences on reliability in agency decision making. It then tests theoretical propositions developed in a comparative case study of two agencies involved with the handling of risky technologies: NASA and the manned space flight program and the FDA's handling of pharmaceuticals--particularly new AIDS therapies. Drawing on concepts from engineering, organizational theory, political science, and decision theory, this book will be of interest to those interested in science and technology policy, bureaucratic management and reform, as well as those interested in health and space policy. C.F. Larry Heimann is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University
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monografia Rebiun22455358 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun22455358 m o d cr un|---uuuuu 110711s2010 xx o 000 0 eng d 9780472023264 0472023268 IDEBK eng pn IDEBK OCLCQ EBLCP DEBSZ OCLCQ ZCU OCLCQ MERUC ICG OCLCO OCLCF AU@ OCLCQ OCLCO DKC OCLCQ n-us--- KN bicssc Acceptable Risks Politics, Policy, And Risky Technologies University of Michigan Press 2010 University of Michigan Press 1 online resource (203) 1 online resource (203) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Understanding Agency Failure; Chapter 2. Reliable Decision Making and the Influence of Political Incentives; Chapter 3. Shifting Political Incentives at NASA and the FDA; Chapter 4. Organizational Structure and the Design of Reliable Systems; Chapter 5. Subordinate Expertise and Reliable Organizations; Chapter 6. Systems versus Components: Seeking Greater Reliability at NASA and the FDA; Chapter 7. Acceptable Risks; References; Index Complex and risky technologies--technologies such as new drugs for the treatment of AIDS that promise great benefits to our society but carry significant risks--pose many problems for political leaders and the policy makers responsible for overseeing them. Public agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration are told by political superiors not to inhibit important technological advances and may even be charged with promoting such development but must also make sure that no major accidents occur under their watch. Given the large costs associated with catastrophic accidents, the general public and elected officials often demand reliable or failure-free management of these technologies and have little tolerance for the error. Research in this area has lead to a schism between those who argue that it is possible to have reliable management techniques and safely manage complex technologies and others who contend that such control is difficult at best. In this book C.F. Larry Heimann advances an important solution to this problem by developing a general theory of organizational reliability and agency decision making. The book looks at both external and internal influences on reliability in agency decision making. It then tests theoretical propositions developed in a comparative case study of two agencies involved with the handling of risky technologies: NASA and the manned space flight program and the FDA's handling of pharmaceuticals--particularly new AIDS therapies. Drawing on concepts from engineering, organizational theory, political science, and decision theory, this book will be of interest to those interested in science and technology policy, bureaucratic management and reform, as well as those interested in health and space policy. C.F. Larry Heimann is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University Estados Unidos. Food and Drug Administration Estados Unidos. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Estados Unidos. Food and Drug Administration. Estados Unidos. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Technology- Risk assessment Technology- Risk assessment. Electronic resource Electronic books Heimann, C.F. Larry