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The current relevance of Lysenkoism

William deJong-Lambert: The cold war politics of genetic research. An introduction to the Lysenko affair. Dordrecht: Springer, 2012, xxii+185pp, €106,95 HB

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  1. Recent scholarship makes Lysenkoism an integral part of the history of science, e.g., Krementsov (1997), Kojevnikov (2004) and Roll-Hansen (2005).

  2. The author makes good use of oral interviews with Dunn as well as a recent Ph.D. dissertation, Gormley (2006).

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  • Gormley, M. 2006. Geneticist L.C. Dunn: Politics, activism, and community. Ph.D. dissertation, Oregon State University.

  • Kojevnikov, A. 2004. Stalin’s great science. The times and adventures of Soviet physicists. London: Imperial College Press.

  • Krementsov, N. 1997. Stalinist science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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  • Roll-Hansen, N. 2005. The Lysenko effect. The politics of science. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1020, Blindern, 0315, Oslo, Norway

    Nils Roll-Hansen

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Roll-Hansen, N. The current relevance of Lysenkoism. Metascience 22, 621–624 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9797-z

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