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IN a six-year review of the activities of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, New York, 1930–1936, Dr. Ludwig Kast, president of the Foundation, reports that up to December 31, 1936, the Foundation made 324 grants, amounting to 806,681 dollars, to thirty-four different universities and twenty-seven other agencies for research in the United States, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands and the U.S.S.R. Special reference is made in the report to the interest of the Foundation in psychosomatic problems, including a survey of the relation of emotion to disease, to its support of investigations upon growth, development, maturation and ageing, the bearing of which upon the changing age distribution of population in the United States and the problems arising from that trend are stressed, as well as in social research concerning health and sickness and medical education. The Foundation in 1933 published the results of a review of the available data and immediate problems in human arteriosclerosis in a volume entitled “Arteriosclerosis: a Survey of the Problem”, and the report emphasizes that, in view of the tendency for the age distribution of population to change towards a predominantly older group with a smaller population less than twenty years of age, the problems associated with the ageing of individual men and women are not merely medical problems but also require study by workers in other branches of science, such as economics and sociology. A chronological list of grants is included in the report.
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The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. Nature 143, 112 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143112b0
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