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Biotech - The Countercultural Origins of an Industry (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Biotech - The Countercultural Origins of an Industry (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
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Biotech The Countercultural Origins of an Industry Eric J. Vettel
"Eric Vettel ably illuminates the political economy of science at
the end of the 1960s, including the impact on attitudes among
younger bioscientists of the demand for relevance in research; and
he provides a riveting on-the-ground account of how in the Bay Area
that response helped give birth to the region's biotechnology
industry. This is a valuable book, deeply researched and altogether
readable."--Daniel Kevles, Yale University "The wide range of
economic, social, cultural, and personal factors chronicled in the
book--particularly the interaction between the institutional and
personal--gives the reader a deep appreciation of the subtle and
complex forces at work during this tumultuous period in U.S.
history. . . . "Biotech"] offers a provocative early look at an
enterprise that is sure to receive much more scholarly analysis in
the years to come."--"American Historical Review" "Compelling,
well-documented, and important. . . . "Biotech"] helps us begin to
see some of the complex questions that we will have to address in
deciding how much and which basic research, applied science, and
technological application we want."--"BioScience" "This is one of
those rare books. . . . What is passed over or hinted at in other
histories is here explored in depth and with the skill that comes
from a sympathetic familiarity with his subject and subjects. . . .
The only history of the field I will keep and recommend."--"Nature
Biotechnology" The seemingly unlimited reach of powerful
biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion-dollar
industry have raised difficult questions about the scientific
discoveries, political assumptions, and cultural patterns that gave
rise to for-profit biological research. Given such extraordinary
stakes, a history of the commercial biotechnology industry must
inquire far beyond the predictable attention to scientists,
discovery, and corporate sales. It must pursue how something so
complex as the biotechnology industry was born, poised to become
both a vanguard for contemporary world capitalism and a focal point
for polemic ethical debate. 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. Eric J. Vettel is the Bancroft Postdoctoral Fellow in
United States History at the University of California, Berkeley,
and Founding Executive Director of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential
Library in Staunton, Virginia. Politics and Culture in Modern
America 2006 296 pages 6 x 9 20 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3947-8 Cloth
$55.00s 36.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-2051-3 Paper $19.95s 13.00 ISBN
978-0-8122-0362-2 Ebook $19.95s 13.00 World Rights American
History, Business, Technology and Engineering Short copy:
Chronicling the birth of the biotechnology industry, "Biotech"
shows how a cultural and political revolution in the 1960s resulted
in a new scientific order--the practical application of biological
knowledge supported by private investors expecting profitable
returns eclipsed basic research supported by government agencies.
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