The Molecular Vision of Life
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1: "Social Control:" the Rockefeller Foundation's Agenda in the Human Sciences, 1913-1933
2: The Technological Frontier: Southern California and the Emergence of Life Science at Caltech
3: Visions and Realities: The Biology Division in the Morgan Era
Interlude 1 -- The Protein Paradigm
4: From Flies to Molecules: Physiological Genetics in the Morgan Era
5: A Convergence of Goals: From Physical Chemistry to Bio-Organic Chemistry
6: The Spoils of War: Immunochemistry and Serological Genetics, 1940-1945
7: Microorganisms and Macromanagement: Beadle's Return to Caltech
8: The Molecular Empire

About the Author

Lily E. Kay received a Ph.D. in the history of science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1987, and was a recipient of a Smithsonian Fellowship at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. in 1984. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in bibliography at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and has taught at the University of Chicago. Since 1989 she has been an assistant professor of history of science at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.

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"[Kay's] description of the establishment of this biology and her analysis of its implications represent an important contribution to our understanding of the social role of science in the late twentieth century." --The Historian
"As a contribution to the history of the American involvement in molecular biology, Kay's book is a work of considerable value, and it is written with clarity and intelligence." --Science
"Dr. Kay's interests span basic science and its culture -- how and why it is done, and the social ramifications thereof. The theses are closely reasoned. There is a nicely detailed index." --Chemical Monographs Review
"The author shows that the growth of molecular biology was the result of systematic efforts by key scientists and their sponsors to direct the development of biological research toward a shared vision of science and society. She analyzes the motivations and mechanisms empowering this vision." --Journal of Chemical Education
"A valuable, detailed account." --Bulletin of the History of Medicine
"[Kay's] description of the establishment of this biology and her analysis of its implications represent an important contribution to our understanding of the social role of science in the late twentieth century." --George E. Webb, The Historian
"Kay has done a good job of describing the events. A lot of effort went into this book, and it contains much of interest." --Biophysical Journal
"As a contribution to the history of the American involvement in molecular biology, Kay's book is a work of considerable value, and it is written with clarity and intelligence." --Science
"I am fascinated by, and supportive of Kay's goals . . . . Kay weaves her rich narrative from both primary and secondary sources . . . . this book will attract readers from a number of different fields as well as interested generalists."--Journal of the History of Biology

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