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UNINA9910778456603321 |
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Harman Oren Solomon |
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The man who invented the chromosome [[electronic resource] ] : the life of Cyril Darlington / / Oren Solomon Harman |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
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1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-318) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I FROM CHORLEY TO TABRIZ -- 1. An Improbable Birth -- 2. A Rising Tide -- 3. Auspicious Beginnings -- 4. In Search of Tulips and Truth -- II SCIENCE -- 5. From Cytology to Evolution -- 6. Roots of a Scientific Controversy -- 7. Method, Discipline, and Character -- Interlude -- III POLITICS -- 8. The Lysenko Mfair -- 9. Marxism and the Slaying of a Mentor -- 10. Science in a Changing World -- IV MAN -- 11. The Conflict of Science and Society -- 12. On the Determination of Uncertainty -- 13. The Breakdown of Classical Genetics -- 14. On the Uncertainty of Determination -- 15. One Final Hurrah -- Conclusion: Paradoxes -- Notes -- Index |
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Born by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of farming life and rose instead, against all odds, to become within a few short years the world's greatest expert on chromosomes, and one of the most penetrating biological thinkers of the twentieth century. Harman follows Darlington's path from bleak prospects to world fame, showing how, within the most miniscule of worlds, he sought answers to the biggest questions--how species originate, how variation occurs, how Nature, both blind and foreboding, random and insightful, makes her way from deep past to unknown future. But Darlington did not stop there: Chromosomes held within their tiny confines untold, dark truths about man and his culture. This |
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passionate conviction led the once famed Darlington down a path of rebuke, isolation, and finally obscurity. As The Man Who Invented the Chromosome unfolds Darlington's forgotten tale--the Nazi atrocities, the Cold War, the crackpot Lysenko, the molecular revolution, eugenics, Civil Rights, the welfare state, the changing views of man's place in nature, biological determinism--all were interconnected. Just as Darlington's work provoked him to ask questions about the link between biology and culture, his life raises fundamental questions about the link between science and society. |
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UNINA9910298523103321 |
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Challenging the Orthodoxy : Reflections on Frank Stilwell's Contribution to Political Economy / / edited by Susan K. Schroeder, Lynne Chester |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
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[1st ed. 2014.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Finance, Public |
Economics |
Economic policy |
Public Economics |
International Political Economy |
Economic Policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Foreword -- Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Contesting Economic Ideas -- Part III: Teaching Political Economy -- Part IV: Economic Inequality -- Part V: Economic Policies -- Part VI: Cities and Regions -- Part VII: A |
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Green Economy -- Part VIII: Conclusion. |
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Political economy focuses on issues that are fundamental to individual and collective well-being and rests on the proposition that economic phenomena do not occur in isolation from social and political processes. One leading Australian political economist is Frank Stilwell. Highlights of his work include concerns with the creation and use of wealth, inequalities between rich and poor, the spatial implications of economic growth, and the tensions between economic growth and the environment. Stilwell has been especially prominent in developing alternative economic policies, with seminal contributions to understanding the radical shift in Australian economic and social policies since the early 1980s. He has also been a leader in the teaching of political economy to many cohorts of first-year university students. This collection, spanning these themes, honours Stilwell’s contribution to Australian political economy after more than 40 years teaching at the University of Sydney. The book provides not only an opportunity to appreciate his contribution but also a greater understanding of these themes which remain of crucial contemporary relevance. |
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