Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

Biofluorescence. (xii + 263 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ.
Press, 2005. ISBN: 0674019210.
Story of the discovery of biofluorescence by Osamu Shimomura
and its subsequent use in several fields of biology.
3589. SANTOS, Gildo Magalhães dos. “A pesquisa
científica paulista em biociências: à margem das
instituições.” Translated title: [Scientific research in
the biosciences in São Paulo: Beyond institutions.] In
Portuguese. Manguinhos 12 (2005): 51–67.
3590. WENIGER, Wolfgang J., Olivier TASSY,
Sébastien DARRAS, Stefan H. GEYER, and Denis
THIEFFRY. “From Experimental Imaging Techniques
to Virtual Embryology.” Hist. Phil. Life Sci. 26
(2004): 355–375.
375-131. BOTANY AND PLANT SCIENCE
3591. KÖSSLER, Franz, and Ekkehard HÖXTER-
MANN. (Eds.) Zur Geschichte der Botanik in Berlin
und Potsdam: Wandel und Neubeginn nach 1945.
Studien und Quellen zur Geschichte der Biologie,
2. (438 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Berlin: Verlag für
Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte Dr. Michael
Engel, 1999. ISBN: 3929134284.
3592. TAN Hongjiao. “Correction of The Reading
Notes on Interpretation of Plant-Naming Written by
Xia Wei-Ying.” [Translated title.] In Chinese. Ziran
Kexueshi Yanjiu 24 (2005): 364–371.
375-133. HEREDITY, GENETICS, AND EVOLUTION
3593. DE CHADAREVIAN, Soraya. “Relics, Replicas,
and Commemorations.” Endeavour 27 (2003):
75–79.
On replicas of Watson and Crick’s model of DNA.
3594. FORREST, Barbara, and Paul R. GROSS. “The
Wedge of Intelligent Design: Retrograde Science,
Schooling, and Society.” In KOERTGE [ref. 230],
191–214.
3595. POUDRIER, Jennifer D. “Decolonizing Genetic
Science: The Thrifty Gene Theory, Aboriginal
Health and Empowering Knowledges.” Diss. Abstr.
Int. A 65/05 (2004): 1991.
Dissertation at Queen’s University at Kingston (Canada),
2004. Adviser: Burfoot, Annette. UMI pub. no. NQ92410.
204 pp. On “the thrifty gene theory, and its relationship
to current Canadian research in the genetics of non-insulin
diabetes among Aboriginal peoples.” (from the abstract)
3596. ROSS, Don. “Dennett and the Darwin Wars.”
In BROOK and ROSS [ref. 126], 271–293.
3597. RUDGE, David W. “Myths about Moths: A
Study in Constrasts.” Endeavour 30 (2006): 19–23.
On differences between the scientific and public perceptions
of the well-known Kettlewell studies of industrial melanism.
3598. WILSON, Edward O. “Kin Selection as the
Key to Altruism: Its Rise and Fall.” Special Issue:
Errors: Consequences of Big Mistakes in the Natural
and Social Sciences [ref. 13]. Soc. Res. 72 (2005):
159–166.
On errors in William D. Hamilton’s kin selection theory of
1964.
375-134. MICROBIOLOGY, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
3599. ALLENDER-HAGEDORN, Susan. “Arguing the
Genome: A Topology of the Argumentation behind
375. Twentieth century after 1950 163
the Construction of the Human Genome Project.”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/12 (2005): 4695.
Dissertation at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
2001. Adviser: Zallen, Doris T. UMI pub. no.
3157769. 280 pp.
3600. ANKENY, Rachel A. “Sequencing the Genome
from Nematode to Human: Changing Methods,
Changing Science.” Endeavour 27 (2003): 87–92.
3601. BRANDT, Christina. “Genetic Code, Text,
and Scripture: Metaphors and Narration in German
Molecular Biology.” Special Issue: Science and
Literature [ref. 240]. Sci. Context 18 (2005): 629–
648.
3602. DRONAMRAJU, Krishna R. “James Watson
and DNA.” Endeavour 29 (2005): 11–13.
Essay review of John R. INGLIS, Joseph SAMBROOK, and Jan
A. WITKOWSKI (eds.), Inspiring Science (2003); WATSON
and BERRY [ref. 486]; FRIEDBERG [ref. 3020].
3603. GAUDILLIÈRE, Jean-Paul. “Globalization
and Regulation in the Biotech World: The Transatlantic
Debates over Cancer Genes and Genetically
Modified Crops.” Volume title: Global Power Knowledge:
Science and Technology in International Affairs
[ref. 2680]. Osiris 21 (2006): 251–272.
3604. GROS, François. Mémoires scientifiques : un
demi-siècle de biologie. Sciences. (393 pp.; bibl.;
index.) Paris: Odile Jacob, 2003. ISBN: 2738112390.
Recollections of this molecular biologist.
3605. HINDMARSH, Richard, and Herbert GOT-
TWEIS. “Recombinant Regulation: The Asilomar
Legacy 30 Years On.” Introduction to a special issue.
Sci. Cult. 14 (2005): 299–307.
Contents: Sheldon KRIMSKY, “From Asilomar to Industrial
Biotechnology: Risks, Reductionism and Regulation,” 309–
323; Herbert GOTTWEIS, “Transnationalizing Recombinant-
DNA Regulation: Between Asilomar, EMBO, the OECD,
and the European Community,” 325–338; Gabriele ABELS,
“The Long and Winding Road from Asilomar to Brussels:
Science, Politics and the Public in Biotechnology Regulation,”
339–353; Ofer FIRESTINE and Barbara PRAINSACK,
“Genetically Modified Survival: Red and Green Biotechnology
in Israel,” 355–372; Richard HINDMARSH, “Genetic
Engineering Regulation in Australia: An ‘Archaeology’ of
Expertise and Power,” 373–392; Tee ROGERS-HAYDEN,
“Asilomar’s Legacy in Aotearoa New Zealand,” 393–410.
3606. HOLMBERG, Tora. “Questioning ‘the Number
of the Beast’: Constructions of Humanness in a
Human Genome Project (HGP) Narrative.” Sci. Cult.
14 (2005): 23–37.
3607. JASANOFF, Sheila. “Biotechnology and Empire:
The Global Power of Seeds and Science.” Volume
title: Global Power Knowledge: Science and
Technology in International Affairs [ref. 2680]. Osiris
21 (2006): 273–292.
3608. JONES, Mark Peter. “Biotech’s Perfect Climate:
The Hybritech Story.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/01
(2005): 370.
Dissertation at the University of California, San Diego, 2005.
Adviser: Epstein, Steven. UMI pub. no. 3160338. 899
pp. “Shows how academic scientists, venture capitalists, and
managers from the pharmaceutical industry worked together
to create a new social space for conducting scientific work.”
(from the abstract)
3609. KLEINMAN, Daniel Lee, and Abby J.
KINCHY. “Why Ban Bovine Growth Hormone?