Public policy history

Christopher Hamlin. Challenge to Public Policy between Knowledge and Action Themes in the History of Environmental Chemistry. Chemical Sciences in the Modem World. Seymour H. Mauskopf, ed. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, (1993) 296-321. 

Alan P. Loeb. Birth of the Kettering Doctrine Fordism, Sloanism and the Discovery of Tetraethyl Lead. Business and Economic History 24 (1) (Fall 1995) 72-87. Source of the effect of TEL on public policy and government. 

G. c. PEDEN is Professor of History at the University of Stirling. His publications include British Rearmament and the Treasury, 1932-1939 (1979), and The Treasury and British Public Policy, 1906-1959 (2000). 

Kolanz, Marc. Beryllium History and Public Policy. Public Health Reports Quly 2008) 423 428. 

Swann, J. Sure Cure Public Policy on Drug Efficacy before 1962. In The Inside Story of Medicines, ed. G. Higby and E. Stroud, 223-61. Madison American Institute of the History of Pharmacy,... 

An interesting discussion of the tension between the gift and the commodity economies can be found in the recent book, Who Owns Academic Work, by Corynne McSherry (2001). McSherry traces the history of the concept of authorship and the relationship between the commonwealth of ideas and an individual creation. This tension also exists in science where every discovery is based on a wealth of prior research. In contemporary society, intellectual property right is an area where ethics, public policy, and law become strongly entangled (Nelkin 1984). 

Probably of paramount importance, however, will be industry s attempt to secure at the outset a commitment for periodic review of the early regulations and a modification of restraints proven unduly conservative for public and environmental protection needs. This approach attempts to borrow from recent history, when the biotechnology public policy debate... 

Roy M. MacLeod is professor of history at the University of Sydney. Educated at Harvard, the LSE, and at Cambridge, where he took his Ph.D., he has written extensively in the history of science, medicine and technology. He has held senior appointments at the universities of Sussex and London and visiting appointments at many universities in Europe and the United States. He teaches military history, nuclear history, and the history of museums in Europe, Asia and Australasia. He has written or edited sixteen books, of which the most recent are Darwin s Laboratory Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific (Honolulu University of Hawaii Press, 1994), Technology and the Raj Technical Transfer and Technological Change in British India, 1780-1945 (New Delhi Sage, 1995), and Public Science and Public Policy in Victorian Britain (Aldershot Variorum, 1995). In 1996, he was Edelstein International Fellow in the History of Chemistry. 

HISTORY OF PUBLIC POLICY ADDRESSING LEAD POISONING... 

Rose, M. H., Seely, B. E. (1990). Getting the Interstate system buUt road engineers and the implementation of public policy, 1955-1985. Journal of Policy History, 2, 23-55. 

This chapter provides a sketch of the development of public policy towards railroad safety. There are four key dates in this history 1853, 1893, 1900-1910 and 1970. Readers seeking more details are directed to Robert Shaw s 1978 book A History of Railroad Accidents, Safety Precautions and Operating Practices which provides an encyclopedic review of the period prior to 1950. Another source is Robert Reed s 1968 book Train Wrecks A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line, While primarily a picture book, it does provide a quick, readable and informative introduction to the subject. 

Higgens-Evenson, R. Rudy. From Industrial Police to Workmen s Compensation Public Policy and Industrial Accidents in New York, 1880-1910. Labor History 39, no. 4 (1998) 365-80. 

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