The Lysenko effect : the politics of science / Nils Roll-Hansen.

  • Roll-Hansen, Nils, 1938-
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2005
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Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2005.

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335 pages ; 23 cm.

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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?

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    History of Medicine
    AOT.31
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  • 1591022622