Book ID: CBB001510017

The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology (2015)

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Yi, Doogab (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: xi + 318 pp.; ill.; maps; index; bibl.
Language: English

The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research. Doogab Yi’s The Recombinant University draws us deeply into the academic community in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the technology was developed and adopted as the first major commercial technology for genetic engineering. In doing so, it reveals how research patronage, market forces, and legal developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s influenced the evolution of the technology and reshaped the moral and scientific life of biomedical researchers. Bay Area scientists, university administrators, and government officials were fascinated by and increasingly engaged in the economic and political opportunities associated with the privatization of academic research. Yi uncovers how the attempts made by Stanford scientists and administrators to demonstrate the relevance of academic research were increasingly mediated by capitalistic conceptions of knowledge, medical innovation, and the public interest. Their interventions resulted in legal shifts and moral realignments that encouraged the privatization of academic research for public benefit. The Recombinant University brings to life the hybrid origin story of biotechnology and the ways the academic culture of science has changed in tandem with the early commercialization of recombinant DNA technology.

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Review Berris Charnley (2016) Review of "The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 109-113). unapi

Review Neeraja Sankaran (2016) Review of "The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 318-320). unapi

Review Rebecca Lowen (2016) Review of "The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology". Technology and Culture (pp. 1037-1039). unapi

Review Miguel García-Sancho (2016) Review of "The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 275-276). unapi

Review Botelho, Alyssa (2015) Review of "The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology". Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science (p. 128). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Yi, Doogab
Doudna, Jennifer
Arum Budiastuti
Sternberg, Samuel H.
Botelho, Alyssa
Maienschein, Jane
Concepts
Biotechnology
DNA; RNA
Genetic engineering
Genetics
Science and politics
Biology
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
European Union
Edinburgh
Indonesia
Netherlands
New Zealand
Institutions
Human Genome Project
Stanford University
Science for the People (SftP)
Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules (1975)
Harvard University
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