Science, History and Social Activism: A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn

by Roy M. Macleod, R. Macleod, Garland E. Allen

Book Overview

"To earn a degree, every doctoral candidate should go out to Harvard Square, find an audience, and explain his [or her] dissertation". Everett Mendelsohn's worldly advice to successive generations of students, whether apocryphal or real, has for over forty years spoken both to the essence of his scholarship, and to the role of the scholar. Possibly no one has done more to establish the history of the life sciences as a recognized university discipline...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402004958
• ISBN13: 9781402004957
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.8"