Genetic Alchemy, the social history of the recombinant DNA controversy: Sheldon Krimsky. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA ($24.95)

Genetic Alchemy, the Social History of t

Genetic Alchemy, the Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversyby Sheldon Krimsky

✍ Review by: R. L. Bernstein 📂 Article 📅 1985 🏛 MIT Press 🌐 English ⚖ 117 KB

Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of t

Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversyby Sheldon Krimsky

✍ Review by: Dorothy Nelkin 📂 Article 📅 1983 🏛 University of Chicago Press 🌐 English ⚖ 114 KB

Genetic alchemy: The social history of t

Genetic alchemy: The social history of the recombinant DNA controversy

✍ Roll-Hansen, Nils 📂 Article 📅 1983 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 128 KB

Jerome Kagan. The Three Cultures: Natura

Jerome Kagan. The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 324 pp. $21.99 (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-0521732307. Nancy J. Nersessian. Creating Scientific Concepts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. 272 pp. $32.00 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-0262141055. Ute Schönpflug (Ed.). Cultural Transmission: Psychological, Developmental, Social, and Methodological Aspects. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 510 pp. $36.99 (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-0521706575. Edward Shorter. Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 320 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-0195368741. Gabriel Tarde. Sur le sommeil ou plutôt sur les rêves: Et autres textes inédits [On sleep, or rather on dreams: And other unpublished texts] (Jacqueline Carroy and Louise Salmon, Eds.). Lausanne, France: BHMS, 2009. viii, 227 pp. $25.00. (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-2-9700536-8-2

📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 39 KB

Sparked by his rereading of C. P. Snow's (1959) The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Kagan's new book surveys the current status of the "two cultures" Snow described-the arts and humanities, on the one hand, and the natural sciences, on the otheras well as a third, the social sciences, wh