Impure cultures : university biology and the world of commerce /
How are the worlds of university biology and commerce blurring? Many university leaders see the amalgamation of academic and commercial cultures as crucial to the future vitality of higher education in the United States. In Impure Cultures, Daniel Lee Kleinman questions the effect of this blending o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Science and technology in society.
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| Summary: | How are the worlds of university biology and commerce blurring? Many university leaders see the amalgamation of academic and commercial cultures as crucial to the future vitality of higher education in the United States. In Impure Cultures, Daniel Lee Kleinman questions the effect of this blending on the character of academic science. Using data he gathered as an ethnographic observer in a plant pathology lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Kleinman examines the infinite and inescapable influence of the commercial world on biology in academia today. Contrary to much of the existing literature and common policy practices, he argues that the direct and explicit relations between university scientists and industrial concerns are not the gravest threat to academic research. Rather, Kleinman points to the less direct, but more deeply-rooted effects of commercial factors on the practice of university biology. He shows that to truly understand research done at universities today, it is first necessary to explore the systematic, pervasive, and indirect effects of the commercial world on contemporary academic practice. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 205 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-202). |
| ISBN: | 9780299192334 0299192334 0299192342 9780299192341 1282269399 9781282269392 9786612269394 6612269391 |
| Language: | English. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Action Note: | digitized |