Scientific Research and Social Goals

Preface: Science, Technology and Social Priorities

Foreword

Introduction

Section 1. Research and Human Needs

Research and Human Needs: a Challenge and a Hope

National Policy Implications of the Basic Needs Model

Closing the Widening Gap

Scientific Progress and the Social Goals of Science

Science and Intellectual Needs

Science and Human Needs: An Artist's Response

Section 2. Methodologies: Practices and Perspectives

Introduction: An International Program on Research and Human Needs

The Role of Methodology in the Research and Human Needs Program

Research Priorities and Human Needs

A Human Needs Approach to Science

Assessing the Contribution of Research to Human Needs: A Possible Methodology

Human Needs and Global Development Models

An Action Program on Research and Human Needs

Section 3. Global, Regional and National Approaches

Research and Human Needs: an Attack on Global Problems

The Research and Human Needs Program in Latin America

Science, Technology and a New Model of Human Needs

Research and Human Needs: The African Perspective

Problems of Developing Countries: Some Case Studies

Section 4. Conclusions

Conclusions

Appendix: An Opportunity in Interdependence: The Fulfillment of Basic Needs