Discourses of Molecular Biology in France: A Philosophy of Life, Knowledge and Information

by John Marks

The 1950s and 1960s were the so-called 'golden age' of molecular biology and, in becoming molecular, biology staked a claim to be the definitive life science. This book looks at the emergence of molecular biology in the context of a set of closely linked scientific and philosophical discourses in post-war France, particularly focussing on the work and influence of the French molecular biologists Fran ois Jacob and Jacques Monod. Jacob and Monod made...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409443973
• ISBN13: 9781409443971
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages