Biotech
Subtitle: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry (Politics & Culture in Modern America)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780812239478
Subjects: Chemical industries; Ethical issues & debates; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Biotechnology; Popular Culture - Counter Culture; United States - 20th Century; Biotechnology industries
Description: "In Biotech, Eric J. Vettel chronicles the story behind genetic engineering, recombinant DNA, cloning, and stem-cell research. It is a story about the meteoric rise of government support for scientific research during the Cold War, about activists and student protesters in the Vietnam era pressing for a new purpose in science, about politicians creating policy that alters the course of science, and also about the release of powerful entrepreneurial energies in universities and in venture capital that few realized existed. Most of all, it is a story about people - not just biologists but also followers and opponents who knew nothing about the biological sciences yet cared deeply about how biological research was done and how the resulting knowledge was used."--Jacket.