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Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

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Richards, Linda Marie

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The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...

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expansion and acceptance of nuclear technology worldwide. Willard E. Libby of the US Atomic Energy Agency
Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

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Hahn, Andre M.

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This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...

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. Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007), 267–307. Garland E. Allen, Life
Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

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Blanchard, Nicholas

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By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...

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