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Daniel J. Kevles

Stanley Woodward Professor of History and Professor of History of Medicine, of American Studies, and of Law (adjunct); Chair of the Program in the History of Medicine & Science

Professor Kevles recieved his B.A. from Princeton University (Physics) in 1960, training at Oxford University (European History) from 1960-61, and his Ph.D. from Princeton (History) in 1964. His research interests include: the interplay of science and society past and present; the history of science in America; the history of modern physics; the history of modern biology, scientific fraud and misconduct; the history of intellectual property in living organisms; and the history of science, arms, and the state. He is currently Chair of the Program in the History of Medicine & Science.

His teaching areas are the history of modern science, including genetics, physics, science in American society.

daniel.kevles@yale.edu

Select Publications

Books

• Inventing America: A History of the United States, coauthored with Alex Keyssar, Pauline Maier, and Merritt Roe Smith (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002; 2nd edition forthcoming, 2005)
• The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character, W. W. Norton, 1998.
• The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project, edited with Leroy Hood Harvard University Press, 1992; (paperback, 1993); published in Germany (Artemis and Winkler), 1994 and in Japan (Ague Shotu-Sha), 1997.
• In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity Alfred A. Knopf, 1985; University of California Press,1986 (paperback); Harvard University Press, 1995 (paperback with new preface). Also published in England (Penguin), Japan (Asahi), Spain (Editions Planeta), France (Presse Universitaire de France).
• The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Vintage, 1979 (paperback); Harvard University Press, 1987,1995. Also published in France (Paris: Anthropos,1988).

Articles

1. International Eugenics, in Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Holocaust Museum, 2004), pp. 41-60
2. The Strange Case of Robert Oppenheimer, New York Review of Books, Dec. 4, 2003, pp. 37-40
3. SciTech: The Forces Are With Us, Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 1, 2003, pp. B11-12
4. Big Chill in Biotechnology, Technology Review (July 2003)
5. His Master's Voice, New York Review of Books, April 10, 2003
6. Ownership and Identity: The Drive to Manipulate DNA Has Changed the Economy and the Law, The Scientist, Jan. 13, 2003
7. Eugenics, the Genome, and Human Rights, in Michael Yudell and Rob DeSalle, eds., The Genomic Revolution: Unveling the Unity of Life (Washington, D.C.: Jospeh Henry Press, with the American Museum of Natural History, 2002), 147-154
8. Cloning Can't Be Stopped, Technology Review, 105 (June 2002), 40-43
9. The Advent of Animal Patents: Innovation and Controversy in the Engineeering And Ownership of Life, in Scott Newman and Max Rothschild, eds., Intellectual Property Rights and Patenting in Animal Breeding and Genetics (New York: CABI Publishing, 2002)
10. Principles, Property Rights, and Profits: Historical Reflections on University/Industry Tensions, Accountability in Research, 8 (2001), 12-26.
11. Patenting Human Genes: The Advent of Ethics in the Political Economy of Patent Law, coauthored with Ari Berkowitz, Brooklyn Law Review, 2002; a longer version in David Magnus, ed., Who Owns Life? (2002)
12. Of Mice and Money: The Story of the World's First Animal Patent, Daedalus, spring, 2002
13. Obligations, Judgment, and Data: Reflections on the Baltimore Case, Gerd Folkers et al, eds., Sternwarten-Buch: Jahrbuch des Collegium Helveticum (Zurich: Haffmans Sachbuch Verlag, 1999), pp. 261-268.
14. The Particle's Over [physics in the 20th century], Times Higher Education Supplement Millennium Magazine Dec 24/31, 1999. pp. 32, 35.
15. Eugenics Then and Genetics Now Avoiding the Pitfalls of the Past, in Mary Hager, ed., The Implications of the New Genetics for Health Professional Education: Proceedings of a Conference, The Macy Foundation, 1999, pp. 187-204.
16. What They Do and Don't Know About Cancer, NY Review of Books Sept. 23, 1999, pp. 14-21
17. Eugenics and Human Rights, Brit. Med. J. 319:435-438, 1999.
18. Les Lecons de l'affaire Baltimore, La Recherche Sept. 1999, pp. 66-72.
19. La Biologie des Boucs Émissaires, co-authored with Bettyann H. Kevles, La Recherche July/August 1998, pp. 58-63.
20. Darwin in Dayton, NY Review of Books Nov. 19, 1998, pp. 61-63.
21. Scapegoat Biology, with Bettyann H. Kevles, Discover October 1997, pp. 58-65.
22. Galton's Ghost in the New Reproductive Machinery: Gender and Eugenics, Then and Now, to be published in proceedings of a conference, University of Dijon, 1998.
23. Big Science and Big Politics in the United States: Reflections on the Death of the SSC and the Life of the Human Genome Project, HSPS: Hist. Studies in the Phy. and Biol. Sci. 27: 269-298, 1997.
24. Endangered Environmentalists, NY Review of Books February 20, 1997, pp. 30-35.
25. The Assault on David Baltimore, The New Yorker May 27,1996, pp. 94-109.
26. The Shape of Things That Came And Didn't: And How They Illuminate What's to Come, Science, Technology, and the Global Society (1996 Sigma Xi Forum; Sigma XI, 1997), pp. 21- 32.
27. A Time for Audacity: What the Past Has to Teach the Present about Science and the Federal Government, in Harold Shapiro and William G. Bowen, eds., Universities and Their Leadership, Princeton University Press, 1998.
28. The X Factor: The Battle over the Ramifications of a Gay Gene, The New Yorker April 3,1995, pp. 85-90.
29. Genetics, Race, and IQ: Historical Reflections from Binet to The Bell Curve, Contention 5:3- 18, 1995.
30. From Eugenics to Genetic Manipulation, in John Krige and Dominique Pestre, eds., Science in the Twentieth Century, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997.
31. Ananda Chakrabarty Wins a Patent: Biotechnology, Law, and Society, 1972-1980, HSPS:Hist. Studies in the Phys. and Biol. Sci. 25: 111 - 136, 1994.