Biology and society lecture series, 1969-1974
Collection Number: 53-2-1312

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Biology and society lecture series, 1969-1974
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
53-2-1312
Abstract:
Lectures in various topics related to biology and society, including the biology of man, man's diseases, agriculture, technology, economics, medicine, vision and perception, and computers.
Creator:
Cornell University. Division of Biological Sciences
O'Brien, R. D. (Richard D.)
Morison, Robert S., 1906-
Arms, Karen.
Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.
Quanitities:
115 items.
Language:
Collection material in English

Scope and content

Lectures in various topics related to biology and society, including the biology of man, man's diseases, agriculture, technology, economics, medicine, vision and perception, and computers.

Scope and content

Also, transcripts of taped lectures by Richard D. O'Brien on "Psychoactive Drugs," May 9, 1970; Robert S. Morison on "Experimentation on People," January 29, 1973; and Karen Arms on "Development of Sexuality," March 12, 1973.
Conditions Governing Use

Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings, viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. If an item is in another media format, you may request to have the item digitized for access. Information on ordering access copies may be found on the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections webpage. Audio visual material that has been digitized: TR-2771, TR-2774, TR-2784, TR-2788, TR-2797, TR-2817, TR-2820, TR-2823, TR-2842, TR-2845, TR-2847, TR-2855, TR-2860

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Cornell University. Division of Biological Sciences. "Biology and Society" Lecture Series, #53-2-1312.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University -- : Addresses, essays, lectures.
Subjects:
Sex (Biology)
Human experimentation in medicine.
Psychotropic drugs.
Computers.
Visual perception.
Vision.
Medicine.
Economics.
Technology.
Agriculture.
Diseases.
Sociobiology.
Biology -- Social aspects.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
TR-2751
Murder in Eden
1969-11-10
Creator: Ascher, Robert
TR-2752
The paleontology of Human Populations
1969-11-17
Creator: Kennedy, Kenneth A.R.
TR-2753
Heritable Difference in Man
1969-11-24
Creator: Srb, A.M.
TR-2754
Biology of Race
1969-12-01
Creator: Brown, William
TR-2755
Racial Intelligence: and examination of experimental design
1969-12-08
Creator: Wallace, B.
TR-2756
Biological Effects of Crowding
1969-12-15
Creator: Ambrose, Harrison
TR-2757
Human reproduction
1970-02-02
Creator: Ari Van Tienhoven
TR-2758
Human Adaptation
1970-02-09
Creator: Thomas, R.B.
TR-2759
The Nutritional Aspects of Human Evolution
1970-02-16
Creator: Srini, W.A.
TR-2760
Consequences of infant malnutrition
1970-02-22
Creator: Barnes, Richard A.
TR-2761
The Biochemistry of Psychoses
1970-03-02
Creator: Racker, E.
TR-2762
Psychoactive Drugs
1970-03-09
Creator: O'Brien, Richard
Scope and Contents
Plus a 69p transcript
TR-2763
Clonal Reproduction in Man and panal discussion with Pearce Williams, Gerd Korman and William Provine
1970-03-16
Creator: Blackler, A.W.
TR-2764
Biology and Morality of Transplants
1970-03-23
Creator: Slobin, L.I.
TR-2765
Communication in Lower Animals
1970-04-06
Creator: Eisner, Tom
Scope and Contents
Record from WHCU-FM as it couldn't be recorded at the t ime
TR-2766
Biology of Language
1970-04-13
Creator: Lenneberg, E.H.
TR-2767
Information Flow in Rural America
1970-04-20
Creator: Pardee, W.D.
TR-2768
Total Synthesis of complex biologically active antibiotics
1970-05-11
Creator: Maxfeldt, H.H.
Man's Finite World
TR-2769
The Biosphere: Living Systems and Man's Arena
1970-09-14
Creator: Whittaker, R.H.
TR-2770
Ecosystems: Functional units of natuer
1970-09-21
Creator: Likens, G.
TR-2771
The social economics of conservation
1970-09-28
Creator: Morse, C.
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TR-2772
Limits to Food production
1970-10-05
Creator: Conklin, H.
TR-2773
Technology assesssment, with special reference to energy production
1970-10-12
Creator: Comar, C. L. (Cyril Lewis), 1914-
TR-2774
A wasteful society: A waste-filled land
1970-10-19
Creator: Ludington, D.
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TR-2775
Forms of scientific unwisdom
1970-11-09
Creator: Guerlac, H.
The Biology of Man
TR-2776
Odyssey of the unborn
1970-11-16
Creator: Wimsatt, W.
TR-2777
On Growth: Facts and fancies about cloning plants and people
1970-11-23
Creator:  Steward, F.C.
TR-2778
Nutrition and development of the human brain
1970-11-30
Creator: Winick, M.
TR-2779
The Biology of birth defects
1970-12-07
Creator: Blackler, A.W.
TR-2780
The evolutionary development of human behavior
1970-12-14
Creator: Emlen, S.
TR-2781
Our fragile oceans
1970-12-21
Creator: Cole, L.
TR-2782
Habitations: alternatives in mass societies
1971-01-04
Creator: Ungers, O.M.
Man's Diseases
TR-2782
Cancer: A population explosion on the cellular level
1970-02-01
Creator: Rickard, C.G.
TR-2783
Degenerative diseases and aging: A medical and social challenge
1971-02-08
Creator: Racker, F.
TR-2784
The roots of alienation
1971-02-15
Creator: Bronfenbrenner, U.
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TR-2785
Diseases of the future
1971-02-22
Creator: Zahler, S.
TR-2786
Man vs. microves: A continuing battle
1971-03-01
Creator: Fink, G.R.
TR-2787
Man's right to die (panel discussion)
1971-03-08
Problems of the Black Community
TR-2788
The concept of the environment in the black experience
1971-03-15
Creator: Jones, Dalton
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TR-2789
Some myths of over-population in Africa
1971-03-22
Creator: Murapa, Rukudzo
TR-2790
Sickle cell hemoglobin and the cost of natural selection
1971-04-05
Creator: Wallace, B.
TR-2791
Medicine in the Inner-city
1971-04-12
Creator: McDermott, W.
Man's Use of Other Men
TR-2792
Aggressive Behavior: Muddling with Nurture or Meddling with Nature
1971-04-19
Creator: Jones, S.C.
TR-2793
Man's Need to Relate to Man: T-Groups and the New Experimental Social Science
1971-04-26
Creator: Lodahl, Thomas
TR-2794
The Psychology of Manipulating Public Opinion
1971-05-03
Creator: Maas, J.
TR-2795
The Second Sex
1971-05-10
Creator: Feeny, K.
Agriculture
TR-2796
The Aims of Modern Agriculture
1971-09-06
Creator: Sisler, Daniel G.
TR-2797
Ecological Problems created by Modern Agriculture
1971-09-13
Creator: Brussard, Peter F.
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TR-2798
Agriculture (panel discussion)
1971-09-20
Technology
TR-2799
The Quality of Life
1971-09-27
Creator: Cranch, Edmund T.(Edmund Titus), 1922-
TR-2800
Reservations Concerning Technological Growth
1971-10-04
Creator: Williams, L. Pearce, 1927-2015
TR-2801
Techology (panel discussion)
1971-10-11
Economics
TR-2802
Economics, Technology, and Society: Point of View
1971-10-18
Creator: Hohenberg, Paul M.
TR-2803
Views on a Boomerang Economy
1971-10-25
Creator: Wilkins, Bruce T. (Bruce Tabor), 1931-
TR-2804
Economics (panel discussion)
1971-11-01
Medicine
TR-2805
The Historical Development of Modern Medicine
1971-11-08
Creator: Morrison, Robert S., 1909-2002.
TR-2806
Critical Observation of Public Medical-Care System and Human Needs in a Technological Society
1971-11-15
Creator: Turner, James E.
TR-2807
Medicine (panel discussion)
1971-11-22
General Reviews
TR-2808
Technologists (panel discussion)
1971-11-29
TR-2809
Humanists (panel discussion)
1971-12-06
Vision and Perception
TR-2810
The Mechanics of Vision
1972-01-24
Creator: Clayton, Roderick K.
TR-2811
Another World of Vision
1972-01-31
Creator: Eisner, Thomas, 1929-2011.
TR-2812
Perception
Creator: Gibson, James.
TR-2813
Learning to See
1972-02-14
Creator: Gibson, Eleanor
TR-2814
Imagery and Hallucination
1972-02-21
Creator: Neisser, Ulric
Where and How Man Lives
TR-2815
Transportation Systems and Housing Patterns
1972-02-28
Creator: Fisher, Gordon P.
TR-2816
Innovations in Housing
1972-03-06
Creator: Carreiro, Joseph A.
TR-2817
Land Policy and Urban Settlement
1972-03-13
Creator: Reps, John W.
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TR-2818
Housing and Human Ecology (Panel discussion)
1972-03-27
Computers and the Computerization of Society
TR-2819
Introducing the Computer
1972-04-03
Creator: Howland, Howard C.
TR-2820
Machine Intelligence
1972-04-10
Creator: Salton, Gerard.
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TR-2821
Computers in Medicine
1972-04-17
Creator: Moraff, Howard
TR-2822
Computers in Education
1972-04-24
Creator: Ruoff, Arthur
TR-2823
The Role of Data Banks in Society
1972-05-01
Creator: Lyons, Norman
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TR-2824
Biology and Society
1972-09-04
Creator: Wallace, B.
TR-2825
Exobiology I: The Origins of Life
1972-09-11
Creator: Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.
TR-2826
Exobiology II: Life in the Solar System
1972-09-18
Creator: Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.
TR-2827
Exobiology III: Life Beyon d the Solar System
1972-09-25
Creator: Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.
TR-2828
Ecology and Politics: The Nature of the Interface
1972-10-02
Creator: Jutro, P.
TR-2829
Early Nutrition and Behavioral Development
1972-10-09
Creator: Levitsky, D.
TR-2830
Venereal Disease and Cornell
1972-10-16
Creator: Drusin, L.
TR-2831
Pest Control, Chemical and Biological
1972-10-23
Creator: Pimental, D.
TR-2832
Innovations in Dentistry
1972-10-30
Creator: Uris, R.
TR-2833
Behavior of the Human Animal
1972-11-06
Creator: Emlen, S.
TR-2834
Ecological Hazards in the Third World 
1972-11-13
Creator: Cole, L.
TR-2835
Man's Use of Natural Products
1972-11-20
Creator: Feeny, P.
TR-2836
Environmental Consequences of Food Production in the Tropics
1972-11-27
Creator: Alexander, M.
TR-2837
Biochemical Bases of Mental Diseases
1972-12-04
Creator: Racker, E.
TR-2838
Man's Ecology: Growth or Steady State
1973-01-22
Creator: Whittaker, R.
Transcript Box 44 - trans. 2839 TR-2839
Experimentation on People
1973-01-29
Creator: Morison, R.
TR-2840
Physiological Effects of Psychoactive Drugs
1973-02-05
Creator: O'Brien, R.
TR-2841
Food Poisoning
1973-02-12
Creator: White, J.
TR-2842
Genetics and the Biology of Race
1973-02-19
Creator: Provine, W.
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TR-2843
Detecting Hidden Genetic Defects
1973-02-26
Creator: Srb, A.
TR-2844
Human Genetic Loads
1973-03-05
Creator: Wallace, B.
Transcript Box 44 - trans. 2845 TR-2845
The Development of Sexuality
1973-03-12
Creator: Arms, K.
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Scope and Contents
Transcript available
TR-2846
Embryonic Development
1973-03-26
Creator: Blackler, A.
TR-2847
DDT and PCB
1973-04-02
Creator: Scott, M.
Creator: Gaylor, J.
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TR-2848
The Ethics of Genetic Counselling
1973-04-09
Creator: Murray, R.
Embryo Transplantation
1973-04-16
Creator: Foote, R.
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TR-2849
Food Additives: Why or Why Not?
1973-04-23
Creator: Washbon, M.
TR-2850
Power Generation and the Hudson's Ecology
1973-04-30
Creator: Oglesby, R.
TR-2851
Biology and Society: Man in Biological Clothing
1974-01-28
Creator: Morison, R.S.
TR-2852
Is there Enough Food in the World?
1974-02-04
Creator: Sisler, Dan
TR-2853
Matching Hospitals with Communities
1974-02-11
Creator: Marcham, John
Creator: Brown, Douglas
TR-2854
The Biosphere, the Industriosphere, and Their Interaction
1974-02-18
Creator: Hall, Charles Leonard.
TR-2855
The Food System, Pressure and Counter-Pressure
1974-02-25
Creator: Call, David
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TR-2856
Eutrophication of Aquatic Ecosystems
1974-03-04
Creator: Likens, Gene
TR-2857
Sharks and Survival
1974-03-11
Creator: Gilbert, Perry W.
TR-2858
Food Production and the Energy Crisis
1974-03-18
Creator: Pimentel, David
TR-2859
Are We Cleaning Up?
1974-03-25
Creator: Zavon, M.
TR-2860
Chemcial Pesticides: Two Views
1974-04-01
Creator: Wilkinson, C.W.
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TR-2861
Coral Reef Destruction
1974-04-15
Creator: Heiser, John B.
TR-2862
On Aggression: Speculation and Facts
1974-04-22
Creator: Eisner, Thomas, 1929-2011.
TR-2863
Sex Traps for Insects
1974-04-29
Creator: Roelofs, W.L.
TR-2864
The Nature of Nature
1974-05-06
Creator: Goodman, Daniel