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" Biotech : "
Eric J. Vettel.
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BL
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688038
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b510227
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| Main Entry
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Vettel, Eric James.
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| Title & Author
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Biotech : : the countercultural origins of an industry /\ Eric J. Vettel.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, [2006]
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, c2006
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| Series Statement
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Politics and culture in modern America
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xv, 273 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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0812239474 (alk. paper)
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: 9780812239478 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-268) and index.
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| Contents
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The setting, 1946 -- Patronage and policy -- The promise and peril of the BVL -- The ascent of pure research -- Research life! -- A season of policy reform -- Crossing the threshold -- Cetus: history's first biotechnology company -- Conclusion: an end.
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biotechnology industries-- History.
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