Genes, Dreams And Realities
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Can supermen be bred? Can life be extended? Can cancer be cured? In Genes, Dreams and Realities, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet confronts these tantalising questions with the measured authority of a lifetime spent at the frontier of biological science, presenting a sober and unflinching assessment of what medical research can — and cannot — achieve for humanity. With the precision of a distinguished scientist and the clarity of a gifted communicator, Burnet chronicles the state of mid-twentieth-century biology, from the nascent revolution of genetics and molecular biology to the stubborn realities of cancer research and the ageing process. Burnet's great achievement in this work is his willingness to challenge the utopian promises that so often accompany scientific progress, arguing that an honest reckoning with biology's limits is itself a form of intellectual courage. His prose is cool, authoritative, and refreshingly free of sensationalism, offering a counterpoint to the era's more breathless prophets of a biomedical golden age. Written at a pivotal moment in the history of science, the book remains a compelling document of how one of the twentieth century's greatest minds understood the boundary between what we dream and what is real — leaving the reader to wonder whether, decades on, we have grown any wiser.
Author: Macfarlane Burnet
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Can supermen be bred? Can life be extended? Can cancer be cured? In Genes, Dreams and Realities, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet confronts these tantalising questions with the measured authority of a lifetime spent at the frontier of biological science, presenting a sober and unflinching assessment of what medical research can — and cannot — achieve for humanity. With the precision of a distinguished scientist and the clarity of a gifted communicator, Burnet chronicles the state of mid-twentieth-century biology, from the nascent revolution of genetics and molecular biology to the stubborn realities of cancer research and the ageing process. Burnet's great achievement in this work is his willingness to challenge the utopian promises that so often accompany scientific progress, arguing that an honest reckoning with biology's limits is itself a form of intellectual courage. His prose is cool, authoritative, and refreshingly free of sensationalism, offering a counterpoint to the era's more breathless prophets of a biomedical golden age. Written at a pivotal moment in the history of science, the book remains a compelling document of how one of the twentieth century's greatest minds understood the boundary between what we dream and what is real — leaving the reader to wonder whether, decades on, we have grown any wiser.