Meeting Reports: Notes and Commentaries on XVth International Congress of the History of Science. Edinburgh, Scotland, 10-19 August 1977

Abstract

I focused my attention at the fifteenth International Congress of the History of Science on the activities of the International Council for Science Policy Studies. This Council, composed of thirty-nine members from seventeen countries, meets annually to exchange information about recent trends in science policy. The formal activities of the Council have included conferences, a summer school in science policy studies, and a recent book, (Science, Technology and Society -- edited by Ina Spiegel-Rosing and Derek DeSolla Price). The Council is creating opportunities to maintain broad contacts in a field that very much calls for an informed international perspective.