Todd Olszewski 1 BIOTECHNOLOGY; Examiner: Dan Kevles June 23, 2005

Plant and Animal Breeding (including Classical Genetics)

Berg, Paul, and Maxine Singer. George Beadle, An Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the Twentieth Century (2003). Bugos, Glenn. “Intellectual Property Protection in the American Chicken-Breeding Industry.” Business History Review 66 (1992):127-168. _____ and Daniel Kevles. “Plants as Intellectual Property: American Practice, Law and Policy in World Context.” Osiris 7 (1992): 75-104. Busch, Lawrence, et. al. Plants, Power, and Profit: Social, Economic, and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies (1991). Derry, Margaret. Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses Since 1800 (2003). Dreyer, Peter. A Gardener Touched with Genius: The Life of Luther Burbank (1985). Dunn, L.C. A Short History of Genetics: The Development of Some of the Main Lines of Thought: 1864-1939 (1965). Fitzgerald, Deborah. The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, 1890-1940 (1990). Kloppenburg, Jack. First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000 (1988). _____. Seeds and Sovereignty: The Use and Control of Plant Genetic Resources (1988). Kohler, Robert. Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life (1994). Krimsky, Sheldon, and Roger Wrubel. Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment (1996). Mangelsdorf, Paul. Corn: Its Origin and Improvement (1974). Pauly, Philip. Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology (1987). Sauer, Carl. Agricultural Origins and Dispersals: The Domestication of Animals and Foodstuffs (1969).

Economics, Patronage, and Intellectual Property Rights

Bud, Robert. The Uses of Life: A History of Biotechnology (1993). Holtzman, Neil. Proceed with Caution: Predicting Genetic Risks in the Recombinant DNA Era (1989). Hughes, Sally. “Making Dollars Out of DNA: The First Major Patent in Biotechnology and the Commercialization of Molecular Biology, 1974-1980.” Isis 92 (2001): 541-575. Kenney, Michael. Biotechnology: The University-Industrial Complex (1986). Kevles, Daniel. “Ananda Chakrabarty Wins a Patent: Biotechnology, Law, and Society, 1972-1980,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 25 (1994): 111-136. Kornberg, Arthur. The Golden Helix: Inside Biotech Ventures (1995). Krimsky, Sheldon. Biotechnics and Society: The Rise of Industrial Genetics (1991). Todd Olszewski 2 BIOTECHNOLOGY; Examiner: Dan Kevles June 23, 2005

Lesser, William H., ed. Animal Patents: The Legal, Economic and Social Issues (1992). McKelvey, Maureen. Evolutionary Innovations: The Business of Biotechnology (1996).

Rothschild, Max, ed. Intellectual Property Rights in Animal Breeding and Genetics (2002). Sale, Kirkpatrick, ed. The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992 (1993). Teitelman, Robert. Gene Dreams: Wall Street, Academia, and the Rise of Biotechnology (1991). _____. Profits of Science: The American Marriage of Business and Technology (1994).

Birth of Molecular Biology

Angier, Natalie. Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene (1988). Echols, Harrison. Operators and Promoters: The Story of Molecular Biology and its Creators (2001). Fischer, E.P., and C. Lipscomb. Thinking About Science: Max Delbruck and the Origins of Molecular Biology (1988). Fredrickson, Donald. The Recombinant DNA Controversy: Science, Politics, and the Public Interest, 1974-1981 (2001). Howard, Ted, and Jeremy Rifkin. Who Should Play God? (1977). Judson, Horace. The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology (1979). _____. “Reflections on the Historiography of Molecular Biology.” Minerva 18 (Aug. 1980), p. 369-421. Kay, Lily. The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology (1996). Keller, Evelyn Fox. The Century of the Gene (2000). _____. “Physics and the Emergence of Molecular Biology.” Journal of the History of Biology 23 (1990), p. 389-409. Kevles, Daniel. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (1985). Krimsky, Sheldon. Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy (1984). Morange, Michel. A History of Molecular Biology (1998). Olby, Robert. The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNA (1974). Rabinow, Paul. Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology (1996). Thackray, Arnold, ed. Private Science: Biotechnology and the Rise of the Molecular Sciences (1998). Wright, Susan. “Recombinant DNA Technology and Its Social Transformation, 1972- 1982.” Osiris 2 (1986): 303-360. Zilinskas, Raymond, and Burke Zimmerman, eds. The Gene-Splicing Wars: Reflections on the Recombinant DNA Controversy (1986).

Todd Olszewski 3 BIOTECHNOLOGY; Examiner: Dan Kevles June 23, 2005

Genomics and the Human Genome Project

Davies, Kevin. Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA (2001). Hubbard, Ruth, and Elijah Wald. Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers (1997). Kevles, Daniel, and Leroy Hood. The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (1992). Paul, Diane. Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present (1995). Rifkin, Jeremy. The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World (1998). Shreeve, James. The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World (2004). Watson, James, and John Tooze. A Documentary History of Gene Cloning (1981). Wickelgrin, Ingrid. The Gene Masters: How a New Breed of Scientific Entrepreneurs Raced for the Biggest Prize in Biology (2002). Wilkie, Tom. Perilous Knowledge: The Human Genome Project and its Implications (1993). Wingerson, Lois. Mapping Our Genes: The Genome Project and the Future of Medicine (1990). Winston, Mark L. Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone (2002). Wright, Susan. Molecular Politics: Developing American and British Regulatory Policy for Genetic Engineering, 1972-1982 (1994).

Molecular Biology and Pharmaceuticals

Adams, David. The Greatest Good to the Greatest Number: Penicillin Rationing on the American Home Front, 1940-1945 (1991). Baldry, Peter. The Battle Against Bacteria: A Fresh Look; A History of Man's Fight Against Bacterial Disease with Special Reference to the Development of Antibacterial Drugs (1976). Balis, Andrea. Miracle Medicine: The Impact of Sulfa Drugs on Medicine, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Government Regulation in the U.S. in the 1930s (2000). Bliss, Michael. The Discovery of Insulin (1983). Hall, Stephen. Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene (1987). Hare, Ronald. The Birth of Penicillin (1970). Hobby, Gladys. Penicillin: Meeting the Challenge (1985). Lesch, John. “Chemistry and Biomedicine in an Industrial Setting: The Invention of the Sulfa Drugs,” in Seymour Mauskopf, ed., Chemical sciences in the Modern World (1993), p.158-215. Liebenau, J. Medical Science and Medical Industry: The Formation of the American Pharmaceutical Industry (1987).

Todd Olszewski 4 BIOTECHNOLOGY; Examiner: Dan Kevles June 23, 2005

Moberg, Carol, and Zanvil Cohn, eds. Launching the Antibiotic Era: Personal Accounts of the Discovery and Use of the First Antibiotics (1990). Parascandola, John. The Development of American Pharmacology: John J. Abel and the Shaping of a Discipline (1992). _____, ed. The History of Antibiotics: A Symposium (1980). Smith, Jane. Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine (1993). Swann, John. Academic Scientists and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Cooperative Research in Twentieth-Century America (1988). Wainwright, Milton. Miracle Cure: The Story of Penicillin and the Golden Age of Antibiotics (1990). _____. “Strepomycin: Discovery and Resultant Controversy.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 13, no. 1 (1991), p. 97-124. Williams, Trevor. Howard Florey: Penicillin and After (1984).