The Second Tree by Elaine Dewar

Author:Elaine Dewar [Dewar, Elaine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-36891-1
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2004-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

In spite of the fact that he had mostly supported himself, the idea that biological science is a public endeavor, rather than a private pleasure to satisfy private curiosity, was firmly in Sanger’s mind by the time he gave his first Nobel lecture in 1958. Social historian Susan Wright has argued that this idea of biology in the service of the public good arose after World War II with the new primacy of government science funding in the United States, primarily from the NIH:

Work sponsored by the National Institutes of Health was pursued with the general goal of understanding and controlling disease, and a major assumption underlying this support was that progress in basic research was a necessary condition for progress in medicine. A duality of purpose thus characterized molecular biology in the United States: the research itself was aimed at basic problems in biology, but the support for it was justified in terms of solving problems in medicine. Although most molecular biologists at this point probably saw their work primarily in terms of the first purpose, the ultimate rationale was practical.5

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