Abstract
“SCIENCE and its applications are not only transforming the physical and mental environment of men, but are adding greatly to the complexities of the social, economic and political relations among them”. This passage from a resolution of the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published in NATURE of January 22, is representative of the widespread growth of interest, in recent times, in the social relations of science. The American Association has resolved to take as one of its objectives an examination of the profound effects of science upon society. This resolve seems to have been partly inspired by the movement, started several years ago, to make the British Association the platform in Great Britain for the discussion of social problems which science had helped to create and might help to solve.
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Social Relations of Science. Nature 141, 723–724 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141723a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141723a0
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