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• Sources of Medical Technology: Universities and Industry (1995), ed. by Nathan Rosenberg, Annetine C. Gelijns, and Holly V. Dawkins (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Nanomedicine: Basic Capabilities (c1999), by Robert A. Freitas (HTML with commentary at nanomedicine.com)

• Access: How Do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries? (c2008), by Laura J. Frost and Michael Reich (PDF files with commentary at accessbook.org)

• Life Without Disease: The Pursuit of Medical Utopia (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William B. Schwartz (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Biology, Medicine, and the Bill of Rights (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Patent-Term Extension and the Pharmaceutical Industry (OTA-CIT-143; 1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Nanomedicine: Basic Capabilities (c1999), by Robert A. Freitas (HTML with commentary at nanomedicine.com)
• Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight Countries (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, ed. by H. David Banta
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging and Cost Effectiveness (1982), by William B. Stason and Eric Fortess (PDF files at Princeton)
• Assessing Selected Respiratory Therapy Modalities: Trends and Relative Costs in the Washington, D.C., Area (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Costs and Effectiveness of Nurse Practitioners (1981), by Lauren LeRoy and Sharon Solkowitz (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Feasibility of Economic Evaluation of Diagnostic Procedures: The Case of CT Scanning (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1981), by Judith L. Wagner (PDF files at Princeton)
• Periodontal Disease: Assessing the Effectiveness and Costs of the Keyes Technique (OTA background paper #2, case study #5, for "The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology"; 1980), by Richard M. Scheffler and Sheldon Rovin (PDF files at Princeton)
• Allocating Costs and Benefits in Disease Prevention Programs: An Application to Cervical Cancer Screening (1981), by Bryan R. Luce (PDF files at Princeton)
• Benefit-And-Cost Analysis of Medical Interventions: The Case of Cimetidine and Peptic Ulcer Disease (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Medicare's Prospective Payment System: Strategies for Evaluating Cost, Quality, and Medical Technology (OTA-H-262; 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)

• Medical Technology and Costs of the Medicare Program (OTA-H-227; 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • PDF at unt.edu

• Access: How Do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries? (c2008), by Laura J. Frost and Michael Reich (PDF files with commentary at accessbook.org)

• Medical Technology Assessment Directory (1988), ed. by Clifford Goodman (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Medical Technology Assessment Directory (1988), ed. by Clifford Goodman (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Life Without Disease: The Pursuit of Medical Utopia (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William B. Schwartz (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Technology and Health Care in an Era of Limits (1992), ed. by Annetine C. Gelijns (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Ensuring Value for Money in Health Care: The Role of Health Technology Assessment in the European Union (c2008), by Corinna Sorenson, Michael Drummond, and Panos Kanavos (PDF at who.int)

• Ensuring Value for Money in Health Care: The Role of Health Technology Assessment in the European Union (c2008), by Corinna Sorenson, Michael Drummond, and Panos Kanavos (PDF at who.int)

• The Management of Health Care Technology in Ten Countries (background paper #4 for "The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology"; OTA-BP-H-7; NOTE Washington: GPO, 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Identifying Health Technologies That Work: Searching for Evidence (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies (2004), by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)
• Infertility: Medical and Social Choices (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (2002), by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)

• Breakthrough Dividend: Israel Innovations in Biotechnology That Could Benefit Americans (c1995), by Irvin M. Asher, ed. by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard (HTML at Jewish Virtual Library)

• Life Without Disease: The Pursuit of Medical Utopia (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William B. Schwartz (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2013), by Sarah Franklin
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Development of Medical Technology: Opportunities for Assessment (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• National Priorities for the Assessment of Clinical Conditions and Medical Technologies, ed. by Marielena Lara and Clifford Goodman (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Medical Devices and the Veterans Administration: A Technical Memorandum (OTA-TM-H-16; Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
• Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning (2002), by Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Beyond Second Opinions: Making Choices About Fertility Treatment (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Judith Steinberg Turiel (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Medically Assisted Conception: An Agenda for Research (1989), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) and National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Ethics of Human Cloning (Washington: AEI Press, 1998), by Leon Kass and James Q. Wilson (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by David Heyd (HTML at UC Press)
• Science and Babies: Private Decisions, Public Dilemmas (1990), by Suzanne Wymelenberg (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies (2004), by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)

• The Ethics of Human Cloning (Washington: AEI Press, 1998), by Leon Kass and James Q. Wilson (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• Medically Assisted Conception: An Agenda for Research (1989), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) and National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning (2002), by Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2019), ed. by Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson (PDF at Ohio State)

• Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, c2014), ed. by Pelle Ehn, Elisabet M Nilsson, and Richard Topgaard (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• A Passion for Ideas: How Innovators Create the New and Shape Our World (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2002), ed. by Heinrich von Pierer and Bolko von Oetinger (PDF at Purdue)
• Product Liability and Innovation: Managing Risk in an Uncertain Environment (1994), ed. by Janet R. Hunziker and Trevor O. Jones (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), ed. by William Bonvillian, Robert E. Van Atta, and Patrick Windham (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Reinventing the Company in the Digital Age (Madrid: BBVA, c2014), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Philip Evans, Kenneth Cukier, Geoffrey A. Moore, Haim Mendelson, George S. Day, Esteban García-Canal, Mauro F. Guillén, Joan E. Ricart i Costa, Christopher Warhurst, Sally Wright, Celia de Anca, Salvador Aragón, Alison Maitland, Stewart D. Friedman, Peter Thomson, Herzog & de Meuron, BBVA New Headquarters Team, William M. Klepper, John P. Kotter, Henry William Chesbrough, and Carol A. Adams (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Tara McPherson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Against Intellectual Monopoly (electronic edition, 2008), by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (PDF with commentary at dklevine.com)
• How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets, by Andy Kessler (PDF at andykessler.com)
• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

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