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Making Genes, Making Waves : A Social Activist in Science /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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