عنوان

Making genes, making waves :

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0674020677

(Number (ISBN

9780674020672

Erroneous ISBN

0674009282

Erroneous ISBN

9780674009288

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b780276

Title Proper

Making genes, making waves :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a social activist in science /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jon Beckwith.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (242 pages) :

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illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and index.

Text of Note

1. The Quail Farmer and the Scientist -- 2. Becoming a Scientist -- 3. Becoming an Activist -- 4. On Which Side Are the Angels? -- 5. The Tarantella of the Living -- 6. Does Science Take a Back Seat to Politics? -- 7. Their Own Atomic History -- 8. The Myth of the Criminal Chromosome -- 9. It's the Devil in Your DNA -- 10. I'm Not Very Scary Anymore -- 11. Story-Telling in Science -- 12. Geneticists and the Two Cultures -- 13. The Scientist and the Quail Farmer.

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In 1969, Jon Beckwith and his colleagues succeeded in isolating a gene from the chromosome of a living organism. Announcing this startling achievement at a press conference, Beckwith took the opportunity to issue a public warning about the dangers of genetic engineering. Jon Beckwith's book, the story of a scientific life on the front line, traces one remarkable man's dual commitment to scientific research and social responsibility over the course of a career spanning most of the postwar history of genetics and molecular biology. A thoroughly engrossing memoir that recounts Beckwith's halting steps toward scientific triumphs--among them, the discovery of the genetic element that turns genes on--as well as his emergence as a world-class political activist, Making Genes, Making Waves is also a compelling history of the major controversies in genetics over the last thirty years. Presenting the science in easily understandable terms, Beckwith describes the dramatic changes that transformed biology between the late 1950s and our day, the growth of the radical science movement in the 1970s, and the personalities involved throughout. He brings to light the differing styles of scientists as well as the different ways in which science is presented within the scientific community and to the public at large. Ranging from the travails of Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb to the Human Genome Project and recent "Science Wars," Beckwith's book provides a sweeping view of science and its social context in the latter half of the twentieth century.

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Title

Making genes, making waves.

International Standard Book Number

9780674009288

Beckwith, Jonathan R.

Beckwith, Jonathan R

Beckwith, Jonathan R.

Geneticists-- United States, Biography.

Political activists-- United States, Biography.

Science-- Social aspects.

Genetics.

Politics.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science & Technology.

Genetica.

Geneticists.

Political activists.

SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Genetics & Genomics.

Science-- Social aspects.

United States.

United States.

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BIO-- 015000

SCI-- 029000

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Book number

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Beckwith, Jonathan R.

Date of Transaction

20201206191409.0

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[Book]

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