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From Agricultural Science to Transgenic Crops (Part 4)

bcohen | March 6, 2009

Pt. I | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 | Pt. 4 --- Part 4 with Christopher Henke, discussing his book Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power, follows below. All entries in the author-meets-blogger series can be found here. WF: What do you make of the intersection of STS and agricultural studies? CH: STS folks aren't often citing rural sociology, and vice-versa. I think the connections between these realms are greater than it might at first appear. Historians of science like Margaret Rossiter, Charles Rosenberg, and Deborah Fitzgerald were writing about agricultural science some time ago (as a sociologist…

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