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Mutations in Soviet public health science: post-Lysenko medical genetics, 1969-1991.
Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences - 1 Sept 2014
Bauer Susanne
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This paper traces the integration of human genetics with Soviet public health science after the Lysenko era. For nearly three decades, USSR biology pursued its own version of anti-bourgeois, Soviet 'creative Darwinism', departing from western, post-WWII scientific developments. After Lysenko was suspended, research niches of immunology, biophysics and mutation research formed the basis of new departments at the...
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