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The biotech century: Harnessing the gene and remaking the world; Frankenstein's footsteps: Science, genetics and popular culture

✍ Scribed by Patrick Colgan

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 89 KB
Volume: 84
Category: Article
ISSN: 0097-0352
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-237x(200001)84:1<127::aid-sce10>3.0.co;2-r

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✦ Synopsis

There once was a time in academe when the word 'scientific' had positive connotations and respected scholars could talk about their faith in the value of knowledge without being laughed at," historian Ellen Schrecker recently wrote, referring to the period from the 1930s to the 1960s (Schrecker, 1997(Schrecker, , p. 1254). Now we have "science wars." This odd phrase alludes to a controversy within a small