Making Genes, Making Waves : : A Social Activist in Science / / Jon Beckwith.
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, th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index