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2 Becoming a Scientist

Jonathan R. Beckwith

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Frontmatter i
Contents v
1 The Quail Farmer and the Scientist 1
2 Becoming a Scientist 13
3 Becoming an Activist 38
4 On Which Side Are the Angels? 54
5 The Tarantella of the Living 68
6 Does Science Take a Back Seat to Politics? 83
7 Their Own Atomic History 98
8 The Myth of the Criminal Chromosome 116
9 It’s the Devil in Your DNA 135
10 I’m Not Very Scary Anymore 153
11 Story-Telling in Science 171
12 Geneticists and the Two Cultures 191
13 The Scientist and the Quail Farmer 211
Bibliography 219
Acknowledgments 227
Index 229

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674020672-002

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents v
1 The Quail Farmer and the Scientist 1
2 Becoming a Scientist 13
3 Becoming an Activist 38
4 On Which Side Are the Angels? 54
5 The Tarantella of the Living 68
6 Does Science Take a Back Seat to Politics? 83
7 Their Own Atomic History 98
8 The Myth of the Criminal Chromosome 116
9 It’s the Devil in Your DNA 135
10 I’m Not Very Scary Anymore 153
11 Story-Telling in Science 171
12 Geneticists and the Two Cultures 191
13 The Scientist and the Quail Farmer 211
Bibliography 219
Acknowledgments 227
Index 229

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