Research in the Service of Man: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Government Research of the Committee on Government Relations, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First Session on Biomedical Development, Evaluation of Existing Federal Institutions, February 28, March 1, 2, 3, and 16, 1967U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 - 273 pages Considers Federal role in the field of biomedical research and development, and explores the establishment of research priorities and long-range plans in the field of biomedicine. |
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... social and behavioral sciences are equally important , that we must seek better understanding of man , himself , and his relationship to his environment and to other men , and that this is necessarily inter - related with his health and ...
... social and behavioral sciences are equally important , that we must seek better understanding of man , himself , and his relationship to his environment and to other men , and that this is necessarily inter - related with his health and ...
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... President Johnson , as well as to you . Last summer , Mr. Johnson gave the most urgent expression to the social concern for the underlying motive behind Government support of scientific research . He 6 RESEARCH IN THE SERVICE OF MAN.
... President Johnson , as well as to you . Last summer , Mr. Johnson gave the most urgent expression to the social concern for the underlying motive behind Government support of scientific research . He 6 RESEARCH IN THE SERVICE OF MAN.
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... social justifications of individual projects may do little benefit for social aims , but may enmesh us in a bureaucratic system for policing these justifications whose cost far outweighs the benefits . Worst of all , it may finally kill ...
... social justifications of individual projects may do little benefit for social aims , but may enmesh us in a bureaucratic system for policing these justifications whose cost far outweighs the benefits . Worst of all , it may finally kill ...
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... social utility of his own work , or that of science in general . His motives in doing research are irrelevant to the consequences of his work for the community . In fact , it is fair to say that society exploits the poetic fascination ...
... social utility of his own work , or that of science in general . His motives in doing research are irrelevant to the consequences of his work for the community . In fact , it is fair to say that society exploits the poetic fascination ...
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... social good . Some of us have read into this charge the implication that as scientists we might be diverted from the laboratory to implement social change , more bluntly that our science budgets should be divided to help pay for these ...
... social good . Some of us have read into this charge the implication that as scientists we might be diverted from the laboratory to implement social change , more bluntly that our science budgets should be divided to help pay for these ...
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