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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lily E. Kay (Assistant Professor of History of Science; Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.485kg ISBN: 9780195111439ISBN 10: 0195111435 Pages: 314 Publication Date: 01 October 1996 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1: Social Control: the Rockefeller Foundation's Agenda in the Human Sciences, 1913-1933 2: The Technological Frontier: Southern California and the Emergence of Life Science at Caltech 3: Visions and Realities: The Biology Division in the Morgan Era Interlude 1 -- The Protein Paradigm 4: From Flies to Molecules: Physiological Genetics in the Morgan Era 5: A Convergence of Goals: From Physical Chemistry to Bio-Organic Chemistry 6: The Spoils of War: Immunochemistry and Serological Genetics, 1940-1945 7: Microorganisms and Macromanagement: Beadle's Return to Caltech 8: The Molecular EmpireReviews[Kay's] description of the establishment of this biology and her analysis of its implications represent an important contribution to our understanding of the social role of science in the late twentieth century. --The Historian<br> As a contribution to the history of the American involvement in molecular biology, Kay's book is a work of considerable value, and it is written with clarity and intelligence. --Science<br> <br> [Kay's] description of the establishment of this biology and her analysis of its implications represent an important contribution to our understanding of the social role of science in the late twentieth century. --The Historian<p><br> As a contribution to the history of the American involvement in molecular biology, Kay's book is a work of considerable value, and it is written with clarity and intelligence. --Science<p><br> [Kay's] description of the establishment of this biology and her analysis of its implications represent an important contribution to our understanding of the social role of science in the late twentieth century. --The Historian As a contribution to the history of the American involvement in molecular biology, Kay's book is a work of considerable value, and it is written with clarity and intelligence. --Science the book has the great merit to give insight in the expectation of young American scientists and in what troubles their minds! * Cellular and Molecular Biology, vol.43, no.5, July 1997 * Author InformationLily E. Kay received a Ph.D. in the history of science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1987, and was a recipient of a Smithsonian Fellowship at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. in 1984. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in bibliography at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and has taught at the University of Chicago. Since 1989 she has been an assistant professor of history of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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