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Paths to Innovation : Discovering Recombinant DNA, Oncogenes, and Prions, in One Medical School, Over One Decade
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ISBN: 0983463921 Year: 2011 Publisher: San Francisco : University of California Medical Humanities Consortium,

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"In less than a decade, scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) learned how to clone DNA, founded the company that created the field of biotechnology, identified the first cancer genes, and made the heretical discovery that a protein by itself can transmit an infectious disease. The discoveries of Herbert Boyer, Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus, and Stanley Prusiner show that real innovators require freedom and time to tackle hard problems in their own way"--Page 4 of cover.


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Global citizenship and the university : advancing social life and relations in an interdependent world
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ISBN: 0804777802 9780804777803 Year: 2011 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,

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With the increasing integration of global economies and societies, the nation-state is no longer the sole force shaping and defining citizenship. New ideas of ""global citizenship"" are emerging, and universities, which are increasingly involved in international engagements, provide a unique opportunity to explore how fundamental understandings of modern citizenship are changing. Drawing on case studies of universities in China, the United States, Hungary, and Argentina, Global Citizenship and the University moves beyond a narrow political definition of citizenship to addre

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