Origin and Objectives of the Survey

Abstract

Most physiologists have thought from time to time about the same problems that concerned the Survey of Physiological Sciences. In casual meetings with colleagues, in organized discussions such as those sponsored by the American Physiological Society, in formal recommendations to administrators and others concerned with policy, and with increasing frequency in professional journals, physiologists have pondered the relationship between the many facets of their science and our even more complex social environment. Mostly, only individual opinions, not all in agreement, supplied answers; but gradually more formal and concerted attention was marshaled.