Autobiographical Flights; Values from a Chicago Upbringing; Growing
Up in the Phage Group; Minds that Live for Science; Early
Speculations and Facts about RNA templates; Bragg's Foreword to The
Double Helix; Biographies: Luria, Hershey, and Pauling
Recominant DNA Controversies; In Further Defense of DNA; Standing
Up For Recombinant DNA; The Nobelist Versus the Film Star; The DNA
Biochemical Canard
Ethos of Science; Moving Towards the Clonal Man: Is This What We
Want?; The Dissemination of Unpublished Information; Science and
the American Scene; The Necessity for Some Academic Aloofness;
Striving for Excellence; Succeeding in Science: Some Rules of
Thumb
War on Cancer; The Academic Community and Cancer Research;
Maintaining High Quality Cancer Research in a Zero-Sum Era; The
Science for Beating Down Cancer
Societal Implications of the Human Genome Project; Moving on to
Human DNA; Ethical Implications of the Human Genome Project; Genes
and Politics; Five Days in Berlin; Good Gene, Bad Gene: What is the
Right Way to Fight the Tragedy of Genetic Disease?; Viewpoint: All
for the Good - Why Genetic Engineering must Soldier On
Afterword: Envoi - DNA, Peace and Laughter
Name Index, Subject Index
James D. Watson was Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New
York, from 1968 to 1993 and is now its President. He was the first
Director of the National Center for Humane Genome Research of the
National Institutes of Health from 1989 to 1992. With Francis Crick
and Maurice Wilkins, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine in 1962. He is the author of the best-selling memoir The
Double Helix and the groundbreaking textbook The
Molecular Biology of the Gene, and is co-author of Molecular
Biology of the Cell and Recombinant DNA: A Short Course.
Among many other awards and honors, Dr Watson is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, and a recipient
of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of
Science.
`Review from previous edition James D. Watson . . . has always been
a man of passion and strong views . . . His writings on the
important issues of the day, prepared over a period of more than
thirty years and presented in the 25 essays of this wonderful book,
are only slightly less provocative than his frequently startling
spontaneous remarks.'
Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences
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