Summary
Daniel J. Kevles writes about issues in science and society past and present. His work deals with a variety of issues that involve the law, including due process in allegations of scientific fraud and misconduct, genetic information and privacy, classification and national security, and intellectual property in biotechnology. He is currently writing a history of intellectual property protection in living organisms and their parts and teaches a course on this subject (The Engineering and Ownership of Life) in the Law School. His works include The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America, and numerous articles, essays, and reviews in scholarly and popular journals. He is also coeditor, with Leroy Hood, of The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project. From 1964 to 2001, he taught at the California Institute of Technology. In 2001 he joined the faculty of Yale University where he is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History and Professor (Adjunct) of Law and Chair of the Program in History of Science and Medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Society of American Historians, the International Academy of the History of Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His honors and prizes include the History of Science Society's George Sarton Medal for career achievement.
Daniel J. Kevles writes about issues in science and society past and present. His work deals with a variety of issues that involve the law, including due process in allegations of scientific fraud and misconduct, genetic information and privacy, classification and national security, and intellectual property in biotechnology. He is currently writing a history of intellectual property protection in living organisms and their parts and teaches a course on this subject (The Engineering and Ownership of Life) in the Law School. His works include The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America, and numerous articles, essays, and reviews in scholarly and popular journals. He is also coeditor, with Leroy Hood, of The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project. From 1964 to 2001, he taught at the California Institute of Technology. In 2001 he joined the faculty of Yale University where he is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History and Professor (Adjunct) of Law and Chair of the Program in History of Science and Medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Society of American Historians, the International Academy of the History of Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His honors and prizes include the History of Science Society's George Sarton Medal for career achievement.
Current Institution | Yale university |
Current School | Yale Law School |
Department | History, Law |
Disciplines | |
Birthday | March 2,1939 |
Address | P.O. Box 208324 New Haven Connecticut 06520 United States Phone: (203) 432135 |
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- Mellon Foundation Grant (2001 - 2007)
- National Science Foundation Grant (1990 - 1992)
Publication Summary
Books
- Making It New: Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, senior coeditor with Ruth Schwartz Cowan, chief editor Harry Evans (Starbright Media, forthcoming)
- Living Properties: Making Knowledge and Controlling Ownership in the History of Biology, coeditor with Jean-Paul Gaudilliere and Hans-Joerg Rheinberger (Preprint No. 382; Berlin: Max Planck Institute for History of Science, 2009)
- Inventing America: A History of the United States, coauthored with Alex Keyssar, Pauline Maier, and Merritt Roe Smith (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002; 2nd edition 2006)
- The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character; (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998)
- Le Scienze Biologiche e la Medicina, coedited with Gilberto Corbellini, in Storia della Scienza, Vol. VIII, director, Sandro Petruccioli (Rome: Istituto delia Enciclopedia Italiana, 2004) pp. 659-953
- The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project, edited with Leroy Hood Harvard University Press, 1992; (paperback, 1993); published in Germany (Artemis and Winkler), 1994 and in Japan (Ague Shotu-Sha), 1997.
- In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity Alfred A. Knopf, 1985; University of California Press,1986 (paperback); Harvard University Press, 1995 (paperback with new preface). Also published in England (Penguin), Japan (Asahi), Spain (Editions Planeta), France (Presse Universitaire de France).
- The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Vintage, 1979 (paperback); Harvard University Press, 1987,1995. Also published in France (Paris: Anthropos,1988).
Articles
- "From Eugenics to Patents: Genetics, Law, and Human Rights," Annals of Human Genetics, forthcoming, late summer, 2010
- "An American Passion Revealed," [essay review of Philip Pauly's Fruits and Plain], The New York Review of Books, May 13, 2010, pp. 53-55
- "New Blood, New Fruits: Protections for Breeders and Originators, 17898-1930," in Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee, eds., Emergent IP: Rethinking Authorship and Inventorship (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, 2010)
- "Genes, Railroads, and Regulation: Intellectual Property and the Public Interest," in Mario Biagioli and Jessica Riskin, eds., Worldly Science: Instruments, Practices, and the Law (forthcoming: New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010)
- "Heredity Produced," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 39 (No. 4, 2009), 482-490 [an essay review]
- "Eugenics, the Genome, and Human Rights," Medicine Studies, I(No. 2, 2009), 85-93 (an expanded version of the article with the same title below)
- "Martyred by Monsters," [essay review of Peter Pringle, The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century (2008)], The New York Review of Books, October 9, 2008, pp. 21-23; reprinted as "Nikolai Vavilov, martry russe de la genetique," La Recherche, mars 2009, pp. 56-60
- Eugenics, the Genome, and Human Rights, in Michael Yudell and Rob DeSalle, eds., The Genomic Revolution: Unveling the Unity of Life (Washington, D.C.: Jospeh Henry Press, with the American Museum of Natural History, 2002), 147-154
- "The Contested Earth: Science, Equity, and the Environment," Daedalus, (spring 2008), pp. 80-95
- "Fruit Nationalism: Horticulture in the United States from the Revolution to the First Centennial," in Aurora Torealis: Studies in the History of Science and Ideas in Honor of Tore Frangsmyr, eds. M. Beretta, K. Grandin & S. Lindqvist (Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2008), pp. 129-146
- "Foreword," to Nathaniel Comfort, Ed., The Panda's Black Box: The Intelligent Design Controversy (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2007), pp. ix-xv
- "The Poor Man's Atomic Bomb," New York Review of Books, April 12, 2007, pp. 60-63
- "Howard Temin: Rebel of Evidence and Reason," in Oren Harman and Michael Dietrich, eds., Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (Yale U. Press, 2008) pp. 248-264
- "Protections, Privileges, and Patents: Intellectual Property in American Horticulture," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 152 (June 2008), 207-13
- "Patents, Protections, and Privileges: Intellectual Property Protection in Animals and Plants," Isis, June 2007, pp. 323-331
- "Genes, Disease, and Patents: Cash and Community in Biomedicine," in Caroline Hannaway, ed., Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2008), pp. 203-216
- "Max Delbruck," Dictionary of Scientific Biography (forthcoming, 2008)
- "What's New About the Politics of Science?" Social Research, 73(Fall 2006)
- "The Blame Game," The New Republic, Oct. 17, 2005, pp. 35-41 [essay review of Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, American Prometheus: A Biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer]
- "Dr. Atomic: An opera about the moral complexities of Hiroshima," Slate, Oct. 19, 2005 [essay review of John Adams and Peter Sellars' opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer]
- "Scientists, Arms, and the State: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Twentieth Century," Berkeley Papers in the History of Science (Berkeley, CA: Office for the History of Science and Technology, 2005)
- "The Gene Wars," The New Republic, May 2&9, 2005, pp. 33-37 [essay review of Oren Harman, The Man Who Invented the Chromosome]
- "Albert Einstein: Relativity, War, and Fame," in A Century of Books: Princeton University Press, 1905-2005 (Princeton Univ. Press, 2005), pp. 115-24: a different version published as "Einstein's Devils," Times Literary Supplement, May 13, 2005, pp. 3-4
- "L'Affaire Baltimore: Politique, Justice, et Accusation de Fraude Scientifique," in Distionnaire de la Pensee Medicale, sous la direction de Dominique Lecourt (Paris: PUF, 2004), 12-17
- International Eugenics, in Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Holocaust Museum, 2004), pp. 41-60
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