This book shows, for the first time, how modern biotechnology grew out of this century's hopes for a new relationship between biology and engineering. Long before recombinant DNA, these promised a new kind of technology. By exploring the rich and surprisingly overlooked complex of prophesies, industrial and scientific development and government programs, the book sheds new light on the expectations now held for biotechnology. A world-wide view, covering developments, not just in America but also in Europe and Japan, uncovers surprising links. This makes possible a coherent story to supersede the historical notes which have been available until now. This first history of biotechnology provides a readable and challenging account that will appeal to anyone interested in the development of this key component of modern industry.
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"...will be of interest to the general reader as well as to biologists, chemists, engineers, and historians." Biosis
"...really quite a nice treatment of fields that used biotechnology in early and what we would now consider nontraditional ways." Thomas D. Brock, Chemical and Engineering News
"...the best introduction to the comparative and cultural history of biotechnology." Glenn E. Burgos, Science
"...a delightful, informative, readable, slightly pedantic, and interesting account of the development of biotechnology in the 20th century....should be read by anyone with an interest in biotechnology and certainly by those who teach biotechnology. It can easily be assigned as reading to upper-level undergraduate students." Jack Pasternak, ASM News
"...painstakingly researched, measured in argument, attractively written and a thoroughly interesting and informative read. It has clearly been a labor of love for the author...the most enjoyable book on biotechnology that I, at least, have come across for some time." Paul Wymer, Tibtech
"...a valuable and erudite account of the earlier tradition of [biotechnology]." Robert Olby, The Times Higher Education Supplement
"...an impressive overview of a century of biotechnology." Markus Heissler, Biotechnology and Development Monitor
"...In this sweeping history of biotechnology, Robert Bud shows how the hopes and fears for the combination of biology with engineering have been an integral part of the culture of the twentieth century...based on a decade of original research, this book has been carefully written in a nontechnical language, so it will appeal to a wide range of scientists, engineers, historians, and general readers from other disciplines." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
"The strengths of Bud's book are its breadth and its impressive documentation: at times the book partakes of 'popular culture' or science fiction, at other times of business history, and elsewhere of the history of chemical engineering. Bud moves easily among the historical, literary, technical, and political literatures....This is an interesting attempt to identify and bring into chronological order the several early forms of 'biotechnology.'" Margaret W. Rossiter, American Historical Review
"...makes an important contribution to the growing scholarly literature concerning the development of molecular life sciences and the emergence of biotechnology as a major economic force....For historians of science, this ambitious book is remarkable for the degree to which it avoids becoming mired in any conventional disciplinary history or trapped in historicizing the usual elite academic settings. In addition, Bud is to be commended for the degree to which he succeeds in attending to multiple national situations, and his account of the development of fermentation and enzyme technologies in Japan should inspire historians to pay closer attention to non-Western science....[Bud's] fascinating account provides a model of how a historian may investigate the interplay between science, technology, and government policy in order to understand how a word comes to convey an industry." Angela N.H. Creager, Isis
"...really quite a nice treatment of fields that used biotechnology in early and what we would now consider nontraditional ways." Thomas D. Brock, Chemical and Engineering News
"...the best introduction to the comparative and cultural history of biotechnology." Glenn E. Burgos, Science
"...a delightful, informative, readable, slightly pedantic, and interesting account of the development of biotechnology in the 20th century....should be read by anyone with an interest in biotechnology and certainly by those who teach biotechnology. It can easily be assigned as reading to upper-level undergraduate students." Jack Pasternak, ASM News
"...painstakingly researched, measured in argument, attractively written and a thoroughly interesting and informative read. It has clearly been a labor of love for the author...the most enjoyable book on biotechnology that I, at least, have come across for some time." Paul Wymer, Tibtech
"...a valuable and erudite account of the earlier tradition of [biotechnology]." Robert Olby, The Times Higher Education Supplement
"...an impressive overview of a century of biotechnology." Markus Heissler, Biotechnology and Development Monitor
"...In this sweeping history of biotechnology, Robert Bud shows how the hopes and fears for the combination of biology with engineering have been an integral part of the culture of the twentieth century...based on a decade of original research, this book has been carefully written in a nontechnical language, so it will appeal to a wide range of scientists, engineers, historians, and general readers from other disciplines." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
"The strengths of Bud's book are its breadth and its impressive documentation: at times the book partakes of 'popular culture' or science fiction, at other times of business history, and elsewhere of the history of chemical engineering. Bud moves easily among the historical, literary, technical, and political literatures....This is an interesting attempt to identify and bring into chronological order the several early forms of 'biotechnology.'" Margaret W. Rossiter, American Historical Review
"...makes an important contribution to the growing scholarly literature concerning the development of molecular life sciences and the emergence of biotechnology as a major economic force....For historians of science, this ambitious book is remarkable for the degree to which it avoids becoming mired in any conventional disciplinary history or trapped in historicizing the usual elite academic settings. In addition, Bud is to be commended for the degree to which he succeeds in attending to multiple national situations, and his account of the development of fermentation and enzyme technologies in Japan should inspire historians to pay closer attention to non-Western science....[Bud's] fascinating account provides a model of how a historian may investigate the interplay between science, technology, and government policy in order to understand how a word comes to convey an industry." Angela N.H. Creager, Isis
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Exploring the rich and suprisingly overlooked complex of prophesies, industrial and scientific development and government programs, this book sheds new light on the expectations now held for biotechnology in a world-wide view spanning America, Europe and Japan.
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United States, World War, Porton Down, Royal Society, European Commission, Julian Huxley, Elmer Gaden, Eli Lilly, New Scientist, Orla Jensen, Third World, University College London, Berlin's Institut, Ernst Chain, Society of Chemical Industry, Chemical Research Laboratory, David Henderson, European Parliament, Harold Hartley, Imperial College, Joshua Lederberg, Karl Ereky, Lancelot Hogben, Microbiological Research Establishment, United Nations New!
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United States, World War, Porton Down, Royal Society, European Commission, Julian Huxley, Elmer Gaden, Eli Lilly, New Scientist, Orla Jensen, Third World, University College London, Berlin's Institut, Ernst Chain, Society of Chemical Industry, Chemical Research Laboratory, David Henderson, European Parliament, Harold Hartley, Imperial College, Joshua Lederberg, Karl Ereky, Lancelot Hogben, Microbiological Research Establishment, United Nations New!
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