Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II - Hardcover

Chadarevian, Soraya De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521570786 ISBN 13: 9780521570787

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 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.

About this title

Book Description:

Molecular biology dominates our perceptions of life, health and disease. In the postwar years, the Medical Research Council Laboratory at Cambridge was a world-renowned center of this emerging discipline; this important new study examines the development of the new science of life in the context of this remarkable institution.

About the Author:

Soraya de Chadarevian is Senior Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Zwischen den Diskursen: Maurice Merleau-Ponty und die Wissenschaften (1990), and co-editor (with Harmke Kamminga) of Molecularizing Biology and Medicine: New Practices and Alliances 1910s-1970s (1998). She is advisory editor of Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521570786
• ISBN 13: 9780521570787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 444