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The Scientist's responsibility to the public

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This paper discusses the new relationship between Government and the Scientific Estate, and the three urgent tasks facing the Scientific Community, including the role of the Scientist in meeting the awesome and challenging social problems of our time. Many of these problems are directly attributable to the development and abuse of modern technology.

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  1. Department of psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 8, Canada

    William T. Brown M.D., Ph.D. (associatte professor)

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consultant in pharmacotherapy at Riverview Hospital in the same city. His major interest is in clinical psychopharmacology and the role of biogenic amines in brain functioning.

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Brown, W.T. The Scientist's responsibility to the public. Psych Quar 45, 227–233 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574977

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