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Rational Fog

Science and Technology in Modern War

M. Susan Lindee

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$47.00 • £40.95 • €42.95

ISBN 9780674919181

Publication Date: 09/15/2020

296 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

23 photos

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M. Susan Lindee is Janice and Julian Bers Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima and Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine and coauthor of The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon.

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At the Washington Post, read Lindee’s argument (April 2020) that in order to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government must bring together industry and academia to foster medical breakthroughs—the way a similar effort during World War II quickly made penicillin widely available

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