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Designs for Life : Molecular Biology after World War II by Soraya de Chadarevian (2002, Hardcover)
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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521570786
ISBN-139780521570787
eBay Product ID (ePID)1880179
Product Key Features
Number of Pages444 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDesigns for Life : Molecular Biology after World War II
SubjectLife Sciences / Molecular Biology, History
Publication Year2002
TypeTextbook
AuthorSoraya De Chadarevian
Subject AreaScience, Medical
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight40.9 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2001-025916
Reviews"The book is thoroughly and professionally researched and a significant contribution to the history of molecular biology." Isis, 'The author combines painstaking scholarship with superb narrative skills, and a gift for explaining technical matters accessibly ... required reading for anyone interested in the politics, personalities and mechanics of science - from sixth formers to government ministers.' John Cornwell, The Sunday Times, Review of the hardback: '… Designs for Life is a very useful addition to the history of molecular biology.' Ambix, ‘De Chadarevian’s historical account is recommended to all who are interested in the development of molecular biology.’Nature, Review of the hardback: 'This is a scholarly work ... but it is also very readable ... the book is a 'must' for academics teaching molecular biology, and for anyone with even a passing interest in the history of what perhaps will be the most pervasive science of the 21st century.' Microbiology Today, "This is an excellent book....a well-written, extensively researched book that sheds new light on the evolution of molecular biology....a very significant contribution to the literature on the history of molecular biology." Journal of the History of Medicine, Review of the hardback: '… the book provides a fresh perspective on well-trodden ground and should fuel the continuing controversy about how, where and why molecular biology first came into being.' BioEssays, ‘De Chadarevian is to be congratulated on the fascinating wealth of information which she has assembled about this classic period in the development of biological science in Britain.’Endeavour, '… the book provides a fresh perspective on well-trodden ground and should fuel the continuing controversy about how, where and why molecular biology first came into being.'BioEssays, ‘This is a scholarly work … but it is also very readable … the book is a ‘must’ for academics teaching molecular biology, and for anyone with even a passing interest in the history of what perhaps will be the most pervasive science of the 21st century.’Microbiology Today, 'This is a scholarly work ... but it is also very readable ... the book is a 'must' for academics teaching molecular biology, and for anyone with even a passing interest in the history of what perhaps will be the most pervasive science of the 21st century.' Microbiology Today, Review of the hardback: 'This is a scholarly work … but it is also very readable … the book is a 'must' for academics teaching molecular biology, and for anyone with even a passing interest in the history of what perhaps will be the most pervasive science of the 21st century.' Microbiology Today, Review of the hardback: '... Designs for Life is a very useful addition to the history of molecular biology.' Ambix, ‘De Chadarevian meticulously traces the place of biophysics in the heady post-war expansion of British science …[A] composite portrait of the ways a new science is shaped by local circumstance.’Times Higher Education Supplement, Review of the hardback: 'De Chadarevian meticulously traces the place of biophysics in the heady post-war expansion of British science ...[A] composite portrait of the ways a new science is shaped by local circumstance.' Times Higher Education Supplement, "Designs for Life makes a contribution both to the history of molecular biology and to the history of science and technology in postwar Britain" Bulletin of Science Technology and Society, '... the book provides a fresh perspective on well-trodden ground and should fuel the continuing controversy about how, where and why molecular biology first came into being.' BioEssays, 'De Chadarevian's historical account is recommended to all who are interested in the development of molecular biology.' Nature, Review of the hardback: 'De Chadarevian's historical account is recommended to all who are interested in the development of molecular biology.' Nature, Review of the hardback: '... the book provides a fresh perspective on well-trodden ground and should fuel the continuing controversy about how, where and why molecular biology first came into being.' BioEssays, Review of the hardback: 'The author combines painstaking scholarship with superb narrative skills, and a gift for explaining technical matters accessibly ... required reading for anyone interested in the politics, personalities and mechanics of science - from sixth formers to government ministers.' John Cornwell, The Sunday Times, ‘The author combines painstaking scholarship with superb narrative skills, and a gift for explaining technical matters accessibly … required reading for anyone interested in the politics, personalities and mechanics of science - from sixth formers to government ministers.’John Cornwell, The Sunday Times, "De Chadarevian offers a timely book, pertinent because of the recent 50th anniversary of the publication of Watson and Crick's description of DNA..... For all 'students' of molecular biology. Recommended." Choice, "I enjoyed this book tremendously, and would highly recommend Design for Life to any reader with an interest in the history of the sciences." Laurette Geldenhuys, Dalhousie University, in The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 'De Chadarevian meticulously traces the place of biophysics in the heady post-war expansion of British science ...[A] composite portrait of the ways a new science is shaped by local circumstance.' Times Higher Education Supplement, "de Chadarevian's historical account is recommended to all who are interested in the development of molecular biology." Nature, Review of the hardback: 'De Chadarevian meticulously traces the place of biophysics in the heady post-war expansion of British science …[A] composite portrait of the ways a new science is shaped by local circumstance.' Times Higher Education Supplement, "With its many perspectives on the rise of molecular biology in Britain, Designs for Life will be appreciated by biologists, historians, and those involved with science policy. The book will surely interest anyone intrigued by the way science seems to follow its own internal logic while participating centrally in the society in which it is embedded." Science, Review of the hardback: 'The author combines painstaking scholarship with superb narrative skills, and a gift for explaining technical matters accessibly … required reading for anyone interested in the politics, personalities and mechanics of science - from sixth formers to government ministers.' John Cornwell, The Sunday Times, 'De Chadarevian is to be congratulated on the fascinating wealth of information which she has assembled about this classic period in the development of biological science in Britain.' Endeavour, Review of the hardback: 'De Chadarevian is to be congratulated on the fascinating wealth of information which she has assembled about this classic period in the development of biological science in Britain.' Endeavour
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal572.8/0941/0904
Table Of ContentIntroduction; Part I. Postwar Reconstruction and Biophysics: 1. World War II and the mobilisation of British scientists; 2. Reconstructing life; 3. Proteins, crystals and computers; 4. Televisual language; Part II. Building Molecular Biology: 5. Locating the double helix; 6. Disciplinary moves; 7. The origins of molecular biology revisited; Part III. Bench Work and Politics: 8. Laboratory cultures; 9. On the governmental agenda; 10. The end of an era; Conclusions.
SynopsisMolecular biology has come to dominate our perceptions of life, health and disease. In the decades following World War II, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge was a world-renowned center of this emerging discipline. Crick and Watson, among others, did the work that made them famous in this laboratory. Soraya de Chadarevian's important new study is the first to examine the creation and expansion of molecular biology and its place on the postwar governmental agenda through the prism of this remarkable institution., Molecular biology has come to dominate our perceptions of life, health and disease. In the decades following World War II, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge was a world-renowned centre of this emerging discipline. It was here that Crick and Watson, Kendrew and Perutz, Sanger and Brenner pursued their celebrated investigations. Soraya de Chadarevian's important study was the first to examine the creation and expansion of molecular biology through the prism of this remarkable institution. Firmly placing the history of the laboratory in its broader institutional and scientific context, she shows how molecular biology was built at the lab bench and through the wide circulation of tools, models and researchers, as well as in governmental committees, international exhibitions and television studios. Designs for Life is a major contribution both to the history of molecular biology, and to the history of science and technology in post-war Britain., Molecular biology has come to dominate our perceptions of life, health and disease. In the decades following World War II, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge became a world-renowned centre of the emerging discipline. Designs for Life examines the making of science through the prism of this remarkable institution.
LC Classification NumberQH506 .C37 2002
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