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Author Watson, James D

Title Passion for DNA : Genes, Genomes, and Society
Published Woodbury : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Sources of the Essays""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Autobiographical Flights""; ""Values from a Chicago Upbringing""; ""Growing Up in the Phage Group""; ""Minds That Live for Science""; ""Early Speculations and Facts about RNA Templates""; ""Bragg's Foreword to The Double Helix""; ""Biographies: Luria, Hershey, and Pauling""; ""Recombinant DNA Controversies""; ""In Further Defense of DNA""; ""Standing Up for Recombinant DNA""; ""The Nobelist versus the Film Star""; ""The DNA Biohazard Canard""; ""Ethos of Science""
""Moving Toward the Clonal Man: Is This What We Want?""""The Dissemination of Unpublished Information""; ""Science and the American Scene""; ""The Necessity for Some Academic Aloofness""; ""Striving for Excellence""; ""Succeeding in Science: Some Rules of Thumb""; ""Rules for Graduates""; ""War on Cancer""; ""The Academic Community and Cancer Research""; ""Maintaining High-Quality Cancer Research in a Zero- Sum Era""; ""The Science for Beating Down Cancer""; ""Societal Implications of the Human Genome Project""; ""Moving on to Human DNA""; ""Ethical Implications of the Human Genome Project""
""Genes and Politics""""Five Days in Berlin""; ""Good Gene, Bad Gene: What Is the Right Way to Fight the Tragedy of Genetic Disease?""; ""Viewpoint: All for the GoodÃ? Why Genetic Engineering Must Soldier On""; ""The Pursuit of Happiness""; ""The Human Genome Revealed""; ""Afterword: Envoi-DNA, Peace, and Laughter""; ""About the Authors""; ""Name Index""; ""Subject Index""
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Genetics -- Social aspects
Molecular genetics.
Science and civilization.
Genetics -- Social aspects.
Molecular genetics.
Science and civilization.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780879696092
0879696095