Nature and Nurture: being the William Withering Memorial Lectures on “The Methods of Clinical Genetics” delivered in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Birmingham for the Year 1933

Abstract

IT is a significant fact that in recent years the editorial columns of NATURE have become more and more concerned with the relation of science to the State. These articles give expression to the conviction which has been growing among men of science that they have certain responsibilities to the community in which they live, and that they should no longer be diffident in offering to help in the solution of the social and economic problems which beset it, by the application of the scientific method in which they have been trained and the special knowledge which they possess. The book under review, which is written by the professor of social biology in the University of London, is a summary of recent work on one phase of the application of science to human affairs, and is therefore of more than purely parochial scientific interest; at the same time the scientific community will be glad to see such problems are being treated with the earnestness, daring and caution which are characteristic of the scientific spirit.

Nature and Nurture: being the William Withering Memorial Lectures on "The Methods of Clinical Genetics" delivered in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Birmingham for the Year 1933.

By Prof. Lancelot Hogben. Pp. 144. (London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1933.) 6s. 6d. net.