The gene wars : Science, politics, and the human genome

In this firsthand account of the protracted struggle to launch the genome project, a close observer of that process and sometime participant in it unravels the tangled scientific and political threads of the story, relying on primary documents gathered even as events unfolded, supplemented by interv...

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Glavni autor: Cook-Deegan, Robert
Format: Knjiga
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Izdano: New York W.W. Norton & Co. 1994
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Sažetak:In this firsthand account of the protracted struggle to launch the genome project, a close observer of that process and sometime participant in it unravels the tangled scientific and political threads of the story, relying on primary documents gathered even as events unfolded, supplemented by interviews with all the main actors including the controversial first head of the National Institute James D. Watson. The result is an absorbing case study in the politics on a project with far-reaching medical and social implications