Jay Clayton (Tennessee Vanderbilt University)

Gebundenes Buch

Literature, Science, and Public Policy

Beschreibung

This book shows how literature can influence scientific controversies concerning genetic engineering, cloning, GMOs, and more by dramatizing these issues' human complexity. Literature's value for public policy is demonstrated by examples from the Victorian response to evolution through the Modern Synthesis of genetics to present-day genomics.

Autor

Jay Clayton is William R. Kenan Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Author of numerous books and articles on topics ranging from Victorian literature to digital media, he is the recipient of the Suzanne M. Glasscock Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781009263528
• ISBN-10: 1009263528
• Artikelnr.: 67326676