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The Lysenko effect : the politics of science
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Title
The Lysenko effect : the politics of science / Nils Roll-Hansen.
ISBN
1591022622 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781591022626 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2005.
Physical Description
335 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 24, 2008
Series
Control of nature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-324) and index.
Contents
Science policy and the problem of Lysenkoism
The situation in agricultural plant science
The "barefoot professor"
Marxism and science policy
Vernalization
From problems in plant breeding to controversy in genetics
"Two directions in genetics" : the Congress of December 1936
Against bourgeois ideology in science
Lysenko takes over
Concluding discussion : why did it happen?
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
History, 20th Century.
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