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The Rockefeller University

1230 York Avenue at 66th Street

New York, N.Y.

U.S.A. July 26th, 1979

 

Dear Joshua,

As you may remember, during my visit to your office I mentioned a
publication concerning the history of biology and medicine.

Since you were kind enough to express some interest in it, I am
now writing to describe its general aims.

Franco Maria Ricci has undertaken a publication project which will
materialize, in about two years from now, in the form of a social
history of the bio-medical sciences. It will have an encyclopaedic
character and will encompass several volumes, richly illustrated.
Contributors are being selected in several Countries, at the highest
level of scholarly achievement. The enclosed document, although
still very preliminary, is, we hope, @pt to give you a fair idea

of our guidelines as well as of the criteria we have been following
in eliciting contributions.

We are now entering a phase of more systematic planning in order

to attain, at the end of this calendar year, full coverage of all
relevant topics.

I would like to forward the following suggestion for your possible
contribution: "The impact of genetics on medicine". _

However we prefer to allow each contributor to define the specific
topic he/she wishes to cover, provided it is compatible with the
aims and the character of our entreprise. We will be delighted
therefore to receive from you alternative suggestions. Needless

to say we would also very much appreciate your comments on the
project as a whole. If you see other scholars concerned with the
social history of biology and medicine, either in your field

or in other fields, whom you deem it would be profitable for us

to contact, please let us know.

I plan to be back in New York during the second half of September.
I intend then to contact Dr. Lorin Baritz, to whom I have sent
relevant material in the meantime. If anything comes out of that, I defi-

w/a

Franco Maria Ricci editore via Cino Del Duca8. 20122 Milano, telefono 79884, 793117, 780275
 

nitely owe it to you.

If you have some time to see me again, I will be delighted
to discuss these and many other matters. I will contact your
secretary as soon as I arrive in New York.

Yours as ever,

vaca
Dr. Massimo Piattelli Palmarini
General Editor
c/o Fine Books / Franco Maria Ricci
160 East 92nd Street
New York, N.Y. 10028
(phone nr.: 2898674)

Franco Maria Ricci editore via Cino Del Duca8.20122 Milano, telefono 798804, 793117, 780275