Global transformations in the life sciences, 1945-1980 / edited by Patrick Manning and Mat Savelli.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Manning, Patrick, 1941- (Editor)
Savelli, Mat, 1982- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Life sciences > History > 20th century.
Life sciences.
Medical sciences.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Life sciences in the era of decolonization, social welfare, and Cold War / Patrick Manning
  • India abroad : the transnational network of Indian-trained physicians after partition / David Wright, Sasha Mullally, and Reňe Saucier
  • The postcolonial context of Daniel Bovet's research on curare / Daniele Cozzoli
  • The disappointment of smallpox eradication and economic development / Bob H. Reinhardt
  • "Dermatoglyphics" and race after the Second World War : the View from East Asia / Daniel Asen
  • Global epidemiology, local message : Sino-American collaboration on cancer research, 1969-1990 / Lijing Jiang
  • From Sovietization to global Soviet engagement? / Doubravka Olšáková
  • Sexological spring? The 1968 international gathering of sexologists in Prague as a turning point / Kateřina Lišková
  • The "brain gain thesis" revisited : German-Speaking émigré neuroscientists and psychiatrists in North America / Frank W. Stahnisch
  • What's in a zone? Biological order versus national Identity in the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study / Audra J. Wolfe
  • For the benefit of humankind : urgent anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, 1965-1968 / Adrianna Link
  • What counts as threatened? Science and the sixth extinction / Jon Agar.