Robert Cook‐deegan

Biographic Data

ID1002690
NAMERobert Cook‐deegan
GIVEN NAMESRobert
FAMILY NAMECook‐deegan
SIGNATUREDEEGAN R C
AFFILIATIONSNational Academy of Medicine
ORCID0000-0002-8251-4237
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Lessons from Biomedical Innovation during World War II

    Open AccessRobert Cook‐deeganARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2021

    The United States developed penicillin and vaccines during World War II. The partnership of government, industry, and academe was crucial. In an essay, Vannevar Bush credited that partnership with the technological achievements that led to winning the war. The policies used to address the Covid‐19 pandemic closely resemble how penicillin was developed, and similarly produced spectacular success in the form of RNA‐based vaccines. But will today's …

  • Universities

    Rebecca S Eisenberg, Robert Cook‐deegan et al.ARTICLEDaedalus2018Cited by: 3References: 1

    The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 established a new default rule that allowed nonprofit organizations and small businesses to own, as a routine matter, patents on inventions resulting from research sponsored by the federal government. Although universities helped get the Bayh-Dole Act through Congress, the primary goal, as reflected in the recitals at the beginning of the new statute, was not to benefit universities but to promote the commercial developm…

  • What's the Use? Disparate Purposes of U.S. Federal Bioethics Commissions

    Open AccessJenny Dyck Brian, Robert Cook‐deeganARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2017

    In the forty‐year history of U.S. bioethics commissions, these government‐sanctioned forums have often demonstrated their power to address pressing problems and to enable policy change. For example, the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, established in 1974, left a legacy of reports that were translated into regulations and had an enormous practical impact. And the 1982 report Splicing …

  • The science commons in life science research

    Open AccessRobert Cook‐deegan, Tom DedeurwaerdereARTICLEInternational Social Science…2006References: 16

    Innovation in the life sciences depends on how much information is produced as well as how widely and easily it is shared. Policies governing the science commons - or alternative, more restricted informational spaces - determine how widely and quickly information is distributed. The purpose of this paper is to highlight why the science commons matters and to analyse its structure and function. The main lesson from our analysis is that both the ch…

  • Bioethics and Public Policy

    Open AccessKathi E Hanna, Robert Cook‐deegan et al.ARTICLEPolitics and the Life Sciences1994

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  • Germ-Line Gene Therapy

    Open AccessRobert Cook‐deegan, Robert Mullan Cook-DeeganARTICLEPolitics and the Life Sciences1994References: 1

    Symposium: Regulating Germ-Line Gene Therapy

  • Finding a Forum for Bioethics in U.S. Public Policy

    Open AccessKathi E Hanna, Robert Cook‐deegan et al.ARTICLEPolitics and the Life Sciences1993

    Advances in biomedical research and health care simultaneously create practical benefits and ethical dilemmas. These bioethical dilemmas are the subject of intense social and political debate. Recent attempts in the United States to address these issues in a national, public policy setting have had mixed success. The absence of a single national voice has resulted in many voices at many levels. This article describes and analyzes past national bi…