Letter from Francis Crick to John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Fogarty International Center and Edsall, John T.
- Date:
- 10 June 1971
- Description:
- In his letter Crick endorsed Edsall's call for a program of positive eugenics, meaning a social and population policy that would encourage reproduction by people with desirable genetic traits. Both also worried about global population growth, a concern shared with many other scientists at the time. See, for example, Joshua Lederberg's contemporary editorials on this issue in the Washington Post.. NOTE: Crick's signature is cut off on the bottom of the page in the original document.
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 22. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/14
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. and http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Subject:
- Eugenics
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center to Francis Crick, 1971 U.S. Population Growth Could Be Made Bearable, 1970 Prophets of Doom Don't Help Population Problem, 1970
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers. 11646. URL. http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/
- Legacy ID:
- SCBBNH
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X192
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X192
- Story Section:
- Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976