Explain in relation to the current states of USA's socio-economic policies on health

1. Should scientific experts always be respected?

2. Should medicine be purely evidence-based?

3. Has the ideal of value freedom been important for science?

4. What does consent do in medical contexts?

5. How should we decide how to ration scarce healthcare resources?

6. Is rational choice theory a successful scientific theory?

7. What assumptions about values should economists make?

8. Is technological determinism a good way to characterize the role of technology in society?

9. Must a sociologist of science be a relativist?

10. Should the results of medical science be protected by intellectual property laws?

11. Have the climate sciences recently become captive to political activism?

12. Explain the significance of 'the masses' to scientific policy-making and research in the People's Republic of China under Mao