Reflections on research and the future of medicine

the long version

In the Spring of 1966, scientists from academic institutions around the world joined with scientists from industry and government in a two-day colloquium devoted to "Reflections on Research and the Future of Medicine." This book records the substance of the colloquium. Beyond that, it seeks to capture the spirit of the occasion -- the intellectual excitement generated by the views advanced and defended by the participants. It is published to permit these ideas, so stimulating to the several hundred distinguished scientists and physicians who attended the colloquium, to reach a wider international audience. - To the reader.