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UNINA9910787522303321 |
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Vettel Eric James |
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Titolo |
Biotech [[electronic resource] ] : the countercultural origins of an industry / / Eric J. Vettel |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006 |
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1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Politics and Culture in Modern America |
Politics and culture in modern America |
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Biotechnology - History |
Biotechnology industries - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-268) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Setting, 1946 -- 2. Patronage and Policy -- 3 The Promise and Peril of the BVL -- 4. The Ascent of Pure Research -- 5. Research Life! -- 6. A Season of Policy Reform -- 7. Crossing the Threshold -- 8. Cetus: History's First Biotechnology Company -- Conclusion: An End . . . -- Notes -- Sources Consulted -- Index |
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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 |
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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. Vettel weaves together these stories to illustrate how the biotechnology industry was born in the San Francisco Bay area, examining the anomalies, ironies, and paradoxes that contributed to its rise. Culled from oral histories, university records, and private corporate archives, including Cetus, the world's first biotechnology company, this compelling history shows how a cultural and political revolution in the 1960's 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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UNINA9910799228003321 |
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Autore |
Thayer Johnathan |
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Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports : Sailors Ashore / / by Johnathan Thayer |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
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[1st ed. 2023.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (198 pages) |
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Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History |
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United States - History |
Cities and towns - History |
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History |
US History |
Urban History |
Labor History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Sailors Ashore -- Chapter 1. Sailors’ Wardship, Maritime Ministry, and the Contest for New York City’s Sailortown, 1843-1915 -- Chapter 2. Merchant Seamen and the Parameters of Involuntary Servitude: The Arago Deserters and the United States Supreme Court, 1895-1897 -- Chapter 3. “Pandemonium on the Quay”: The Titanic Disaster, the Olympic Mutiny, and the 1912 Transport Workers’ Federation Strike -- Chapter 4. The 1915 Seamen’s Act: Maritime Labor and Progressive Era Maritime Reform -- Chapter 5. Deserters, Stowaways, and Mala Fide Sailors: Merchant Seamen and the Shaping of U.S. Immigration Policy, 1917-1936 -- Chapter 6. The “Million-Dollar Home for Sailors,” Industrial Maritime Unionism, and Sailors’ Agency in New York City’s Sailortown, 1930-1932 -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Currents, Past and Future. |
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This book argues first, that the forces of industrialization that transformed ship technology simultaneously transformed the working-class lives of merchant seamen, intensifying class conflict and producing collective networks of subversion and resistance within the urban borderland spaces of sailortowns in which sailors fought to maintain control over their mobility, agency, and rights. Second, that given their social, cultural, economic, geographic, and legal marginalization, merchant seamen have occupied essential roles at the parameters of US urban, legal, labor, immigration, and wartime history. Third, that the constellation of these histories, embedded in the encounters and negotiations that merchant seamen provoked along the nation’s coastlines and sailortowns, collectively represents a unique and essential perspective on the history of US citizenship. . |
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