The Engineering IdealLoeb’s Ghost, or Something Else?

Crowe, Nathan

doi:10.1525/hsns.2020.50.5.624

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The Engineering Ideal: Loeb’s Ghost, or Something Else?

Luis A. Campos,

Radium and the Secret of Life

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Chicago

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University of Chicago Press

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2015

. 378 pp., illus., index. ISBN 978-0226418742. $35.00 (paper).

Helen Anne Curry,

Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth Century America

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Chicago

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University of Chicago Press

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2016

. 285 pp., illus., index. ISBN 978-0226390086. $55.00 (cloth).

Sophia Roosth,

Synthetic: How Life Got Made

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Chicago

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University of Chicago Press

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2017

. 251 pp., illus., index. ISBN 978-0226440460. $35.00 (paper).

Nathan Crowe

Department of History, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 S. College Rd., Wilmington, NC 28409; [email protected].

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2020) 50 (5): 624–632.

https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2020.50.5.624

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