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Papers of M H F Wilkins: papers relating to science and social ethics

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Papers, chiefly correspondence between Wilkins and Jerome Raymond (‘Jerry’) Ravetz, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Leeds University, relating to social ethics and science, including: correspondence between Wilkins’ and Peter Cadogan, Secretary, South Place Ethical Society, 1975, concerning a forthcoming talk by Wilkins; notes on a talk by Ravetz on the demystification of science; copy letters from Wilkins to Ravetz, 1976, commenting on Horace Freeland Judson’s and Robert Olby’s research on the history of DNA; booklet, ‘Superstar technologies’, on the problems of monitoring innovative technology companies, published 1976 by the Council for Science and Society, for which Ravetz was Executive Secretary. Original file title ‘Ravetz’.

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