Related articles on the role of scientists and the role of government within science

Date:
1914-1968
Reference:
PP/HPH/F/3
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Himsworth, Sir Harold Percival
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Comprises collected articles, addresses and reports reflecting the role of the scientist and the role of government and administration within science during this time:

  • PP/HPH/F/3/1: J.S. Haldane, “An address on Biology and Medicine”, British Medical Journal (21 May 1927)
  • PP/HPH/F/3/2: “Speeches by the Rt. Hon. Winston S Churchill, Prime Minister and the Rt. Hon. Lord Moran, President of the College” to the Royal College of Physicians in London, reprinted in The Lancet (11 March 1944)
  • PP/HPH/F/3/3: Michael Polanyi, “The Foundations of Academic Freedom”, The Lancet (3 May 1947)
  • PP/HPH/F/3/4: Alan Gregg, M.D., “General Education in Preparation for Medicine”, reprinted from The Journal of General Education, vol.II no.2 (January 1943)
  • PP/HPH/F/3/5: “The Hopkins Memorial Lecture” delivered before the Chemical Society on February 19 1948 by Sir Edward Mellanby. Reprinted from the Journal of the Chemical Society (1948)
  • PP/HPH/F/3/6: Sir Charles Harington, “The Shattuck Lecture: The Role of the Basic Sciences in Medical Research”, reprinted from the New England Journal of Medicine, 244:777-785 (24 May 1951)
  • PP/HPH/F/3/7: “Science for its own sake” address by Sir Edward Appleton to the British Association, Liverpool Meeting. Preprint from The Advancement of Science, no.38, (September 1953)
  • PP/HPH/F/3/8: “Medical Institutes”, a speech by Dr. Alan Gregg at the Montreal Neurological Institute (20 November 1953)
  • PP/HPH/F/3/9: P.B. Medawar, “An Unsolved Problem of Biology”, an Inaugural Lecture delivered at University College London. Sent by the author to Himsworth, 1951.
  • PP/HPH/F/3/10: Sir Henry Tizard, “A scientist in and out of the civil service”. The Haldane Memorial Lecture delivered at Birkbeck College, 1955.
  • PP/HPH/F/3/11: Robert F. Loeb, “Values in Undergraduate Medical Education”, Presidential Address, reprinted from the Transactions of the Associations of American Physicians, vol.Ixviii, p.1 (1955). Sent by Robert Loeb to Himsworth.
  • PP/HPH/F/3/12: Sir Charles Harington, “Leadership in Scientific Research”, Sir David Russell Memorial Lecture. Printed by Oxford University Press. Sent by the author to Himsworth, 1958.
  • PP/HPH/F/3/13: Address to the Symposium of Service Psychologists on “The Human Aspects of Administration” by Sir Robert Scott. Attached with letter asking for comments, 1961.
  • PP/HPH/F/3/14: Sir Gordon Cox , “Personal responsibility and technocracy', The Pharmaceutical Journal, 193, 389-390 (1964)
  • PP/HPH/F/3/15: Dr. Joseph Platt, “Memorandum to the Committee Regarding Criteria for Determining Levels of Federal Support of Health Research”, publication not indicated, 1963.
  • PP/HPH/F/3/16: Sir Bruce Fraser, “The Doctor and the Administrator”, The Winchester Address for the British Medical Association, 1968
  • PP/HPH/F/3/17: “Royal Commission on University Education in London”, A Government Blue Paper, 1914.
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    1914-1968

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