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Science for Sale
The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism

Daniel S. Greenberg

The media are awash with stories about increasingly close ties between college science departments and multi-million dollar corporations, but is that relationship endangering science? Have universities, bedazzled by visions of huge profits from biotechnology and drug patents, allowed themselves to be fatally compromised by corporate cash?

With Science for Sale, journalist Daniel S. Greenberg draws on sources developed through his forty years of reporting to paint a clear and detailed picture of the state of university science. Taking on everything from drug tests to the technology transfer offices that have sprung up at many universities, Greenberg reveals that campus capitalism is more complicated—and less profitable—than media reports would suggest.

Support from government and philanthropic groups, for example, still dwarfs corporate funding, while the majority of technology transfer offices have yet to deliver on promises of financial windfalls. But Greenberg isn’t so naïve as to believe there are no risks, and in an epilogue he posits a future where greed wins out, and he spells out the implications for science and academe alike. Science for Sale will be indispensable to anyone who cares about the future of scientific research.

Daniel S. Greenberg is a journalist who has written extensively on science and health politics. He is the author of Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion and The Politics of Pure Science, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Daniel S. Greenberg is available for interviews. For more information, please contact Levi Stahl at (773) 702-0289 or lstahl@press.uchicago.edu