Vettel, Eric James (Author)
University of Virginia
Lichtenstein, Nelson
Edition Details: Advisor: Lichtenstein, Nelson
Physical Details: 511 pp.
Language: English
The study that follows is a history of bioscience research conducted at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, in the twenty-five years following the conclusion of World War II. More particularly, it is a detailed examination of the collision of science, society and the state, and how that collision transformed a field dedicated to basic research into one that emphasized practical application. Beginning in the 1960s, small-scale protest began to see the expansion of basic bioscientific research as a profound betrayal of the human side of the life sciences, especially when so many local problems of poverty, health and ecology wreaked havoc at home. By the mid-1960s, isolated frustration erupted into a hailstorm of protest to condemn, among others, the established research community. Bioscientists often responded by withdrawing their technical skills and knowledge from unethical federal military research projects, impractical pure-science research objectives, and elitist academic research hierarchies; leading patrons of bioscience research---especially federal and state representatives---responded to the growing discontent by placing greater emphasis on and support of applied bioscience research rather than fundamental discovery. Bioscientists accommodated---albeit reluctantly, at times---the surging ideological, political and fiscal pressure by fixing their gaze on more practical research questions. In other words, this dissertation links the growing emphasis on applied bioscience research with the dramatic social and cultural changes and the transforming political-economy.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 64 (2003): 1824. UMI order no. 3091161.
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