Imagenation: Popular Images of Genetics

by José van Dijck

Book Overview

The public image of genetics research has undergone a remarkable transformation since the 1950s, from a suspect brand of research tainted by eugenics to a thriving, well-funded, and "popular" field of biomedicine. Still, despite enormous scientific advances in DNA technology and its ability to sustain large areas of the science industry, social, legal, and popular opinion about genetics remains highly ambivalent.
In Imagenation, historian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814787967
• ISBN13: 9780814787960
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.7"