STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94304

Area Code 4ty

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS |
DEC 198 1968

Professor Jushus Lederberg
321-1200

The Very Reverend Canon Michael Hamilton
Washington Cathedral
Washington, D. C.

Dear Canon Hamilton:

I would be grateful to you for information you may have available
on:
A fuller account of your thoughts on genetic engineering.

(I confess I am somewhat at a loss to understand the general

anxiety displayed by so many people about voluntary modification

of the human body, and a total absence of persnective ubcut the

total immersion of our culture in forces for dominating the wind.
Cuenteal control of behavior is anathema --as perhaps it should be--
but the muss: media and their control are shrugged off. )

(VALTIM YH!

a "ine: clipping from the N.Y. Times Dee ll, 1968

Thank you,
hn bint
AEE WR SS

/ Joshua Lederberg ZY

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