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5. “The Drosophila Genome,”
Science
287 (March 24, 2000). Although there
is an excellent history of Drosophila genetics, Robert E. Kohler,
Lords of the
Flies:
Drosophila
Genetics and the Experimental Life
(Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1994), it is not mentioned in the entire issue of
Science
.
6. Sydney Brenner, “The End of the Beginning,”
Science
287 (March 24, 2000):
2173.
7. Kary Mullis's inspiration in thinking of the polymerase chain reaction was to
move from the gene to DNA. See Paul Rabinow,
Making PCR: A Story of
Biotechnology
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
8. Of the many books on this topic, see Robert Cook-Degan,
Gene Wars:
Science, Politics and the Human Genome
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1994).
9. Brenner, “The End,” 2174.
10. Ibid.
11. Sigmund Freud,
Civilization and Its Discontents
, trans. and ed. James
Strachey (New York: W. W. Norton, 1961), 44-45.
12. Sigmund Freud, “A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis,” in
The Stan-
dard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
, trans.
James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1986), 17:137-144. The “three blows
to human narcissism' are also described at the end of lecture 18 of Freud's
Intro-
ductory Lectures
(1916-17), in
The Complete Psychological Works
, 3:284-285.
13. Freud does not discuss resistance to claims put forward by scientists in which
opinion turned out to be correct, or cases in which science could not provide
adequate answers.
14. Immanuel Kant, “What Is Enlightenment?” in
Kant Selections
, ed. Lewis
White Beck (New York: Macmillan, 1988), 462-467.
15. Freud, “A Difficulty,” 139.
16. Ibid., 140.
17. Ibid., 140, 141.
18. Max Weber, “Science as a Vocation,” in
From Max Weber: Essays in Soci-
ology
, ed. H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (New York: Free Press, 1946),
129-156.
19. Max Weber,
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
(New York:
Routledge, 1992), 182.
20. Weber, “Science as a Vocation,” 131.
21. Ibid., 132, 134.
22. Ibid., 134.
23. Ibid., 137.
24. Ibid., 136.
25. Ibid., 139.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., 140.
