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Daniel J. Kevles

Daniel J. Kevles is a Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and a visiting scholar at NYU School of Law. His books include The Physicists, In the Name of Eugenics, The Baltimore Case, and, most recently, Heirloom Fruits of America: Selections from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection. He is currently working on a history of innovation and intellectual property in living organisms. (February 2025)

His Master’s Voice

The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933

by Emily Thompson

April 10, 2003 issue

Cancer: What Do They Know?

Cancer: What Do They Know?

The Nazi War on Cancer

by Robert N. Proctor

One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins

by by Robert A. Weinberg

September 23, 1999 issue

Darwin in Dayton

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion

by Edward J. Larson

November 19, 1998 issue

Endangered Environmentalists

The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble That Threatens to Destroy American Agriculture

by Paul Raeburn

Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides

by Wargo John

Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species

by Charles C. Mann and Mark L. Plummer

Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century

by Mark Dowie

February 20, 1997 issue

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