Letter from Lord Noel Annan to Francis Crick
- Contributor(s):
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers Crick, Francis, 1916-2004 Annan, Noel , Lord
- Publication:
- Produced: 4 November 1968
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Biology Genetics Social Values Economics
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Letters (correspondence)
- Abstract:
- Annan here commented on Crick's Rickman Godlee Lecture, "The Social Impact of Biology," delivered at University College London on October 24, 1968. In his lecture Crick had raised ethical and political issues brought to the forefront by recent advances in science and medicine. Among other things, he had dismissed present laws regarding the use of cannabis as illogical, unnecessarily restrictive, and therefore prone to bring law itself into public contempt. He had also called for new approaches to controlling population growth, including restrictions on the right to reproduce.
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- Extent:
- 2 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584582X203 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- SCBBNW
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X203
- Archival Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)