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Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945-1980 /
The second half of the twentieth century brought extraordinary transformations in knowledge and practice of the life sciences. In an era of decolonization, mass social welfare policies, and the formation of new international institutions such as UNESCO and the WHO, monumental advances were made in b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Joanna Radin
- Introduction : life sciences in the era of decolonization, social welfare, and Cold War / Patrick Manning
- India abroad : the transnational network of Indian-trained physicians after partition / David Wright, Sasha Mullally, and Renee Saucier
- The postcolonial context of Daniel Bovet's research on curare / Daniele Cozzoli
- The disappointment of smallpox eradication and economic development / Bob H. Reinhardt
- "Dermatoglyphics" and race after the Second World War : the view from East Asia / Daniel Asen
- Global epidemiology, local message : Sino-American collaboration on cancer research, 1969-1990 / Lijing Jiang
- From Sovietization to global Soviet engagement? / Doubravka Olšáková
- Sexological Spring? The 1968 international gathering of sexologists in Prague as a turning point / Kateřina Lišková
- The "brain gain thesis" revisited : German-Speaking emigre neuroscientists and psychiatrists in North America / Frank W. Stahnisch
- What's in a zone? Biological order versus national identity in the biological sciences curriculum study / Audra J. Wolfe
- For the benefit of humankind : urgent anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, 1965-1968 / Adrianna Link
- What counts as threatened? Science and the sixth extinction / Jon Agar.