The Molecular Vision of Life (Paperback)

Kay

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 1997

0195111435 / 9780195111439

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Paperback. This fascinating study examines the rise of American molecular biology to disciplinary dominance, focusing on the period between 1930 and the elucidation of DNA structure in the mid 1950s. Research undertaken during this period, with its focus on genetic structure and function, endowed scientists with then unprecedented power over life. By viewing the new biology as both a scientific and cultural enterprise, Lily E. Kay shows that the growth of molecular biologywas a result of systematic efforts by key scientists and their sponsors to direct the development of biological research toward a shared vision of science and society. She analyzes the motivations andmechanisms empowering this vision by focusing on two key institutions: Caltech and its sponsor, the Rockefeller Foundation. Her study explores a number of vital, sometimes controversial topics, among them the role of private power centers in shaping scientific agenda, and the political dimensions of "pure" research. It also advances a sobering argument: the cognitive and social groundwork for genetic engineering and human genome projects was laid by the American architects of molecularbiology during these early decades of the project. This book will be of interest to molecular biologists, historians, sociologists, and the general reader alike. Lily Kay argues that molecular biology did not "evolve" in a random fashion between 1030 and the 1950s, but, rather, was an expression of systematic efforts by scientists and the foundations they relied upon for financial support to direct the development of biological research toward a shared vision of science and society. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
The Molecular Vision of Life (Paperback)
Autore
Kay
Editore
Oxford University Press Inc, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
1997
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0195111435
ISBN 13
9780195111439

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