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Finding Aid to the AAAS Committee on Science in the Promotion of Human Welfare Records


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview of the Collection

Scope and Contents

Restrictions

Related Material

Administrative Information

Detailed Description of the Collection


Overview of the Collection

Repository: American Association for the Advancement of Science Archives, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005, archives@aaas.org
Creator: AAAS Committee on Science in the Promotion of Human Welfare
Title: AAAS Committee on Science in the Promotion of Human Welfare Records
Dates: 1958-1974
Extent: 2.5 linear feet (2 boxes)
Abstract: AAAS established the Commmittee on Science in the Promotion of Human Welfare (CSPHW) in 1958 to explore the role that AAAS might take in addressing social controversies involving science and technology. The committee, whose chairs included biologist Barry Commoner and anthropologist Margaret Mead, issued reports on science and nuclear war, science and race, scientific integrity, and secrecy in science. The committee was successor to an interim AAAS Committee on the Social Aspects of Science (1956-1958). AAAS disbanded the CSPHW in 1974.
Identification:
Language: The records are in English.

Scope and Contents

Records include correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, proceedings, reports, and publications.

Arrangement

Files are arranged in descending chronological order.

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Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

Collection open to the public for research.

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Related Material

Records are related to other materials in the AAAS Executive Office and the AAAS Office of Science and Society Programs.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Committee on Science in the Promotion of Human Welfare Records. AAAS Archives, Washington, DC.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

[BOX 1: Q-2-7]
CSPHW-"Institutions" Project, requests for publications, 1974
CSPHW-Expenses, 1974
CSPHW-Correspondence, 1974
CSPHW-Meeting documents, October 18, 1974
CSPHW-Institutions Workshop, Annual Meeting, 1974
CSPHW-Symposium on "Institutions" and CSPHW Workshop, AAAS Annual Meeting, February 1974
CSPHW-Palo Alto Workshop, April 25-27, 1974
CSPHW-Meeting documents (agenda, minutes), June 17, 1974, October 18, 1974, and April 7, 1973
CSPHW-Documents relating to Scoville Military Research and Development Study, 1973-1974
CSPHW-Application of Science to Social Needs, 1973-1974
CSPHW-Joel Primack correspondence, 1973-1974
CSPHW-Advisory Study, Application of Science to Social Needs, 1973
CSPHW-Meeting correspondence, 1973
CSPHW-Related correspondence and documents, meeting of December 14, 1973
CSPHW-Agenda, minutes, related documents, meeting of September 1973
CSPHW-Telephone canvass, report regarding state of CSPHW Committee, December 1973
CSPHW-Minutes and related documents, meeting of December 14, 1973
CSPHW-Institutions for the Application of Science to Social Needs, 1973
CSPHW-Palo Alto/Stanford Center for Study of Behavioral Sciences Meeting, April 19, 1973
CSPHW-Institutions Symposium papers, 1972-1973
CSPHW-Biographical data for "Institutions" Symposium, 1972-1973
CSPHW-Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) letters, 1972-1973
CSPHW-Institutional Workshop, 1972-1973
CSPHW-OTA information, correspondence, and discussion outlines, 1972-1973
CSPHW-Sloan Foundation and Russell Sage proposals, 1972
CSPHW-Kessler Project, 1972-1974
CSPHW-Correspondence regarding and "Science, Social Science, and Society's Problems" by John C. McKinney, 1972
CSPHW-Original symposium proceedings-Symposium on Institutions for the Application of Science to Social Needs, 1972
CSPHW-"Preliminary Feasibility of Air Conservation Book", 1971
CSPHW-Budget, 1970-1974
CSPHW-Reports and other historical documents, 1960-1972
CSPHW-Publications, 1950s-1970s
[BOX 2: Q-2-6]
CSPHW-Minutes of Meeting on September 23, 1973
CSPHW-Correspondence, 1973
CSPHW-Scientists in the Public Interest Conference, Alta, Utah, 1973
CSPHW-Meeting information (agenda, attachments), 1972-1973
CSPHW-Correspondence, 1972
CSPHW-Air Conservation, 1972
CSPHW-Agendas, minutes, 1971-1972
CSPHW-Reports, correspondence, 1971-1972
CSPHW-Correspondence, 1971
CSPHW-Symposium, Annual Meeting, 1971
CSPHW-Reports, agenda, and minutes, 1971
CSPHW-Letter to Science, December 18, 1971
CSPHW-Ebert Subcommittee, 1971
CSPHW-Letter to Science (Part I), 1970-1971
CSPHW-Letter to Science (Part II), 1970-1971
CSPHW-Correspondence, 1970
CSPHW-Technology Assessment Bill, 1970
CSPHW-Correspondence, 1969
CSPHW-Correspondence, 1968
CSPHW-Correspondence, 1967
CSPHW-Correspondence, 1966
CSPHW-Agendas, minutes, reports to Council (Folder 1 of 2), January 1965-June 1971
CSPHW-Agendas, minutes, reports to Council (Folder 2 of 2), January 1965-June 1971
CSPHW-Commoner Chairman, 1959-1965

 
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