Soraya de Chadarevian is Senior Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Zwischen den Diskursen: Maurice Merleau-Ponty und die Wissenschaften (1990), and co-editor (with Harmke Kamminga) of Molecularizing Biology and Medicine: New Practices and Alliances 1910s-1970s (1998). She is advisory editor of Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
Introduction
Part I. Postwar Reconstruction and Biophysics: 1. World War II and the mobilisation of British scientists
2. Reconstructing life
3. Proteins, crystals and computers
4. Televisual language
Part II. Building Molecular Biology: 5. Locating the double helix
6. Disciplinary moves
7. The origins of molecular biology revisited
Part III. Bench Work and Politics: 8. Laboratory cultures
9. On the governmental agenda
10. The end of an era
Conclusions.
