Memo from To:
JOSHUA LEDERBERG Tom Gallagher

Thank you FEB i 7 S72

_for the committee publications you had.
gathered up for me. |

~The pile did inetude the sickle-cell anemia
hearings. Itm sorry I made- you ‘think it was
the’ fault of “your: staff.

I was. glad. also to. get “the ‘Technology
Assessment series, but this went just through
1970. Were there no hearings in 1971?
_{RePr Davis). _

You. “will be. heering. from_us_ soon about -

. setting up better efforts in health systems
@. research oo ne.

 
   
  

 

_You_should not. neglect. ‘to contact Dr. Howard
- _Hiatt, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston (Harvard
nw Med). who is a first-rate scientist now deeply
\ _ involved in these questions. .

 

I hope the Senator can stay out of prisons,
~*-and conéentrate his energies on tese hopeless
segments of the pétial system. As far as TIT
know the only” penal systems that ever worked

“Cin any sense) were capital punishment for ~
even trivial trimes, and traneportation (t.e.
~€6 Atistralia in the early” T8th century). —
- ~We-lack the tnhunahtty and the-geography;ree-
~~ pettively “to emulate these today; so we had -
better find some new kinds of tngenuity. Para-
~-dextcalty, tf the poitce could be more effi-
~—~efent@without sacrificing fairness) we would
—-~have to rely much less on the penal system.
But we might have to trade some of our tradi-
tional privacies for

 

 

 

 

 

 

the bargain. PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG

Department of Genetics
School of Medicine
Stanford University

Gy pts Stanford, California 94305