The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 1

Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-81835-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 191 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 2753 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

This volume covers the global history of the Lysenko controversy, while exploring in greater depth the background of D. Lysenko’s career and influence in the USSR. By presenting the rise and fall of T.D. Lysenko in a variety of aspects—his influence upon art, unrecognized predecessors, and the extent to which genetics continued in the USSR even while he was in power, and the revival of his reputation today—the authors provide a fresh perspective on one of the most notorious episodes in the history of science.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krementsov, Nikolai

deJong-Lambert, William

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Humangenetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.1. Lysenkoism Redux Nikolai Krementsov and William deJong-Lambert.- 2. Lysenko’s Predecessors: the Demchinskiis and a New Technique of Cereals Cultivation  Olga Elina.- 3. State Officials and Would-Be Scientists: How the Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture Discovered for Lysenko that He Had Made a Scientific Discovery Lukas Joos.- 4. Pavel Pantelimonovich Luk’ianenko and the Origins of the Soviet Green Revolution Mark B. Tauger.- 5. Lysenko’s “Michurinism” and Art at the Moscow Darwin Museum, 1930s-1950s Pat Simpson.

Über Autor(innen)

William deJong-Lambert is an Associate Professor of History at Bronx Community College, CUNY, and Associate Faculty of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, USA. His book, The Cold War Politics of Genetic Research: An Introduction to the Lysenko Affair, was published in 2012.

Nikolai Krementsov is a Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on the history of Soviet science, biomedical research, eugenics, and intersections of science and literature.