Monday, July 19, 2004
preface: this must not be a very interesting blog.
was it ever? i used to try harder.
i have less time lately for blogging at all,
less access to computers,
and other blogs taking up a larger share.
topic: note to self about blood policy work.
May 3: Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History of Medicine, Yale Medical School and Bill Reed, Vice President of Operations, Indiana Blood Center. "Blood and Organ Donation Policy: Comparative Historical Perspectives: England and the U.S." [Health Related Philanthropy Study Group] 4:00-5:30 p.m. Research Institute #2 (R2) Building, Room 101, 950 West Walnut Street, (IUPUI campus), Indianapolis, IN. For additional information, please contact Elizabeth Garman at egarman@indiana.edu
May 5: James G. Wolf, Director, Indiana University Public Opinion Lab. "Discussion of National Survey Results."
see, my first professional-quality policy-wonking paper was 'rights and the market in blood',
an unpublished 1979 graduate-level paper for the director of the center for the study of values at unidel. an academic excercise. that was before the net and self-publishing, and it wasn't likely a mad 19 year old would get published through the traditional routes, so i put it away and lost it. maybe the paper wasn't as good as i remember. but the trouble was, my policy recommendations were not adopted, and every year since then thousands of people die unnecessarily because market transactions in blood are illegal. since the 70's, there's been a new respect for markets as a way of getting things done and as a theoretically elegant solution.
except when it comes to certain things, like sex, or drugs, or organs, or in this case blood.
squeanishness about commodifiation allows economic processes to be replacd with political ones, with the usual results - people die. collective farming killed millions during the twentieth century. food for people, not for profit, leads to famine. this is generally understood.
-continue later, someone walked in stuff to do.
was it ever? i used to try harder.
i have less time lately for blogging at all,
less access to computers,
and other blogs taking up a larger share.
topic: note to self about blood policy work.
May 3: Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History of Medicine, Yale Medical School and Bill Reed, Vice President of Operations, Indiana Blood Center. "Blood and Organ Donation Policy: Comparative Historical Perspectives: England and the U.S." [Health Related Philanthropy Study Group] 4:00-5:30 p.m. Research Institute #2 (R2) Building, Room 101, 950 West Walnut Street, (IUPUI campus), Indianapolis, IN. For additional information, please contact Elizabeth Garman at egarman@indiana.edu
May 5: James G. Wolf, Director, Indiana University Public Opinion Lab. "Discussion of National Survey Results."
see, my first professional-quality policy-wonking paper was 'rights and the market in blood',
an unpublished 1979 graduate-level paper for the director of the center for the study of values at unidel. an academic excercise. that was before the net and self-publishing, and it wasn't likely a mad 19 year old would get published through the traditional routes, so i put it away and lost it. maybe the paper wasn't as good as i remember. but the trouble was, my policy recommendations were not adopted, and every year since then thousands of people die unnecessarily because market transactions in blood are illegal. since the 70's, there's been a new respect for markets as a way of getting things done and as a theoretically elegant solution.
except when it comes to certain things, like sex, or drugs, or organs, or in this case blood.
squeanishness about commodifiation allows economic processes to be replacd with political ones, with the usual results - people die. collective farming killed millions during the twentieth century. food for people, not for profit, leads to famine. this is generally understood.
-continue later, someone walked in stuff to do.
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