Book ID: CBB000074518

Matters of life and death: Perspectives on public health, molecular biology, cancer, and the prospects for the human race (1997)

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Cairns, John (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xiii + 257 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: 1. A history of mortality. 2. A history of molecular biology: The storage of biological information. 3. A history of molecular biology: The management of biological information. 4. Cancer and the molecular biology of multicellular systems. 5. The epidemiology of cancer. 6. Population.


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Authors & Contributors
Fantuzzi, Giamila
Winnie, John A.
Vigue, Charles L.
Teich, Mikuláš
Rosypal, Stanislav
Rader, Karen A.
Journals
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Studies in History of Biology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Quarterly Review of Biology
Philosophy of Science
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Publishers
Open Univ. Press
MIT Press
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Academic Press
Concepts
Cancer; tumors
Molecular biology
Genetics
DNA; RNA
Biomedicine
Propaganda
People
Perutz, Max
Temin, Howard M.
Sanger, Frederick
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Little, Clarence Cook
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
British Isles
Institutions
Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine
Human Genome Project
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