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CHAPTER FOUR
THE ACADEMIC
ENDEAVOR IN THE
LIFE S CIEN CES
The present studies, which revealed a wealth of detail descriptive of the
life sciences endeavor in academic institutions, are insufficient to charac-
terize research in the life sciences in private industry, nonprofit research
institutes, or government laboratories. This is a consequence of a number
of circumstances: the greater ease of identification of academic institutions,
their departments, and individual academic investigators; the diversity of
organizational forms in both industry and government, which make it diffi-
cult to identify the equivalent of an academic "principal investigator"; the
difficulty of locating industrial laboratories that employ significant numbers
of research-performing biological scientists; and the fact that most previous
statistical compilations have focused on academia.
Our studies have also provided a more complete picture of life in schools
of arts and sciences and agriculture and a clearer picture of the preclinical
component of medical schools than of clinical departments. Thus, our pair
of questionnaires located approximately equal numbers of preclinical and
clinical academic faculty, yet the latter are known to comprise 69 percent
of total medical faculty. The very nature of our questionnaires, with their
emphasis on elements of graduate education, undoubtedly discouraged
responses from numbers of clinical investigators and chairmen of clinical
departments. And the task of completing the chairmen's questionnaire
might well have appalled the chairmen of some very large clinical depart
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