Global transformations in the life sciences, 1945-1980 / edited by Patrick Manning & Mat Savelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manning, Patrick, 1941- editor.

Savelli, Mat, 1982- editor.

Project Muse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life sciences--History--20th century.

Life sciences.

Medical sciences--History--20th century.

Medical sciences.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Foreword / by Joanna Radin

Introduction : life sciences in the era of decolonization, social welfare, and Cold War / Patrick Manning

India abroad : the transnational network of Indian-trained physicians after partition / David Wright, Sasha Mullally, and Renee Saucier

The postcolonial context of Daniel Bovet's research on curare / Daniele Cozzoli

The disappointment of smallpox eradication and economic development / Bob H. Reinhardt

"Dermatoglyphics" and race after the Second World War : the view from East Asia / Daniel Asen

Global epidemiology, local message : Sino-American collaboration on cancer research, 1969-1990 / Lijing Jiang

From Sovietization to global Soviet engagement? / Doubravka Olšáková

Sexological Spring? The 1968 international gathering of sexologists in Prague as a turning point / Kateřina Lišková

The "brain gain thesis" revisited : German-Speaking emigre neuroscientists and psychiatrists in North America / Frank W. Stahnisch

What's in a zone? Biological order versus national identity in the biological sciences curriculum study / Audra J. Wolfe

For the benefit of humankind : urgent anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, 1965-1968 / Adrianna Link

What counts as threatened? Science and the sixth extinction / Jon Agar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-301) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Global transformations in the life sciences, 1945-1980.

ISBN:

9780822986058

0822986051

Publisher Number:

99977122520

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