By Lily E. Kay
This fascinating study examines the increase of yankee biology to disciplinary dominance, that specialize in the amount between 1930 and also the elucidation of deoxyribonucleic acid structure within the middle Fifties. analysis undertaken throughout this era, with its target genetic structure and performance, blessed scientists with then unexampled power over life. By viewing the new biology as each a scientific and cultural enterprise, Lily E. Kay shows that the expansion of biology was a results of systematic efforts by key scientists and their sponsors to direct the event of scientific research toward a shared vision of science and society. She analyzes the motivations and mechanisms empowering this vision by that specialize in 2 key institutions: Caltech and its sponsor, the John D. Rockefeller Foundation. Her study explores variety of significant, generally polemic topics, among them the role of personal power centers in shaping scientific agenda, and also the political dimensions of "pure" analysis. It additionally advances a serious argument: the psychological feature and social groundwork for gene-splicing and human ordination comes was set by the yankee architects of biology throughout these early decades of the project. This book are of interest to molecular biologists, historians, sociologists, and also the general reader alike.
