Making Genes, Making Waves A Social Activist in Science

Name: Making Genes, Making Waves A Social Activist in Science
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ISBN: 9780674009288

ISBN-10: 0674009282

ISBN-13: 9780674009288

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jon Beckwith

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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, the story of a scientific life on the front line, traces one remarkable man's dual commitment to scientific research and social responsibility over the course of a career spanning most of the postwar history of genetics and molecular biology. A thoroughly engrossing memoir that recounts Beckwith's halting steps toward scientific triumphs--among them, the discovery of the genetic element that turns…

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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 254
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990

Jon Beckwith is American Cancer Society Research Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School.




The Quail Farmer and the Scientist



Becoming a Scientist



Becoming an Activist



On Which Side Are the Angels?



The Tarantella of the Living



Does Science Take a Back Seat to Politics?



Their Own Atomic History



The Myth of the Criminal Chromosome



It's the Devil in Your DNA



I'm Not Very Scary Anymore



Story-Telling in Science



Geneticists and the Two Cultures



The Scientist and the Quail Farmer


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index