Impure cultures : university biology and the world of commerce /

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How are the worlds of university biology and commerce blurring? Many university leaders see the amalgamation of academic and commercial cultures as crucial to the future vitality of higher education in the United States. In Impure Cultures, Daniel Lee Kleinman questions the effect of this blending o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kleinman, Daniel Lee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2003.
Colección:Science and technology in society.
Temas:
Biology > Research > Economic aspects.
Education, Higher > Economic aspects.
Academic-industrial collaboration.
Collaboration université-industrie.
Enseignement supérieur > Aspect économique.
Biologie > Recherche > Aspect économique.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Academic-industrial collaboration
Biology > Research > Economic aspects
Education, Higher > Economic aspects
Biologie.
Onderzoek.
Onderwijs.
Biotechnologie.
Economische aspecten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:How are the worlds of university biology and commerce blurring? Many university leaders see the amalgamation of academic and commercial cultures as crucial to the future vitality of higher education in the United States. In Impure Cultures, Daniel Lee Kleinman questions the effect of this blending on the character of academic science. Using data he gathered as an ethnographic observer in a plant pathology lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Kleinman examines the infinite and inescapable influence of the commercial world on biology in academia today. Contrary to much of the existing literature and common policy practices, he argues that the direct and explicit relations between university scientists and industrial concerns are not the gravest threat to academic research. Rather, Kleinman points to the less direct, but more deeply-rooted effects of commercial factors on the practice of university biology. He shows that to truly understand research done at universities today, it is first necessary to explore the systematic, pervasive, and indirect effects of the commercial world on contemporary academic practice.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 205 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-202).
ISBN:9780299192334
0299192334
0299192342
9780299192341
1282269399
9781282269392
9786612269394
6612269391

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