Title:

Letter from Maxine Singer to Lorill Brown-Rezanka

Creator:

Singer, Maxine

Recipient:

Brown-Rezanka, Lorill and California. Legislature. Assembly

Date:

6 June 1977

Description:

Throughout the recombinant DNA controversy of the 1970s, Singer argued that only national standards, not restrictions issued by state or local governments, could assure a balance between safeguarding public health and the environment, and allowing this promising new line of research to proceed without overly burdensome and widely-varying requirements for review and authorization.

Original Repository:

Library of Congress. Maxine Singer Papers

Location:

Box: 35. Folder: 1

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Library of Congress.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

DNA, Recombinant

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Relation:

Testimony of Maxine Singer before the California State Legislature, 1977

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Library of Congress. Maxine Singer Papers. 12494

Legacy ID:

DJBBJW

NLM ID:

101584644X135

Profiles Collection:

The Maxine Singer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584644X135

Story Section:

Risk, Regulation, and Scientific Citizenship: The Controversy over Recombinant DNA Research