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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, th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beckwith, Jonathan R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Temas:
Beckwith, Jonathan R.
Beckwith, Jonathan R
Geneticists > United States > Biography.
Political activists > United States > Biography.
Science > Social aspects.
Politics, Practical.
Genetics
Politics
Généticiens > États-Unis > Biographies.
Activistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Sciences > Aspect social.
Politique.
politics.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Genetics & Genomics.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Politics, Practical
Geneticists
Political activists
Science > Social aspects
Genetica.
United States
Personal Narrative
Autobiography
Biography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Personal narratives
Biographies
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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