Scientists in Search of Their Conscience (Proceedings of a Symposium on the Impact of Science on Society)

A R Michaelis and H Harvey (eds) Berlin: Springer 1973 pp xiii + 229 price $16.30 Scientists are coming to understand that they are not universally popular, their motives often misunderstood and mistrusted, their science and the technology that flows from it no longer thought of as a benevolent progressive transforming force, but sometimes rather as something sinister that may end up by destroying the society it was once thought to benefit. This situation has formed the theme of numerous meetings of scientists in recent years.