Bice T W
Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc. 1980 Spring;58(2):173-200.
Public skepticism of the promised links between research and practical ends, and of the role of natural scientists as the ultimate judges of progress, is not new. After the unprecedented new social legislation and related research of the 1960s, social scientists today are being questioned about their contribution to improved public policy. Government interventions in the health services industry created new needs for information and knowledge, and at the same time altered the institutions and mechanisms through which relevant research is conducted and used. Social scientists and public officials will have to act in concert in response to new policy and research environments.
公众对研究与实际目标之间所承诺的联系，以及对自然科学家作为进步的最终评判者角色的怀疑，并非新鲜事。在20世纪60年代出现了前所未有的新社会立法及相关研究之后，如今社会科学家正因其对改进公共政策的贡献而受到质疑。政府对医疗卫生服务行业的干预产生了对信息和知识的新需求，同时也改变了进行和应用相关研究的机构与机制。社会科学家和政府官员将不得不协同行动，以应对新的政策和研究环境。
