Biotechnics and Society: The Rise of Industrial Genetics

by Sheldon Krimsky

Book Overview

Impacts of technological change have historically been assessed only after the passage of a significant period of time. It is then that historians recreate the decisions that were made, sort out the influencing factors, and debate in hindsight the options that were available at the time. Sheldon Krimsky, consistent with the importance of his subject, telescopes this process by providing to contemporary readers a broad overview of the first ten...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027593859X
• ISBN13: 9780275938598
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.7"