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Material for this manuscript was assembled as a part of a Special Scientific Project of the National Library of Medicine (5 K 10 LM 0010) and the results of the study, entitledNational Priorities for Health, Past, Present and Projected, will be published by John Wiley and Sons in 1980. Several illustrations in this paper are reproduced with their approval.

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Rushmer, R.F. Alternative futures for biomedical research. Ann Biomed Eng 7, 1–44 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02364437

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