Daniel Kevles
Stanley Woodward Professor of History and Professor in the History of Medicine and Senior Research Scientist in Law; Director of Graduate Studies, History of Science and Medicine; Professor of American Studies
Research Interests
interplay of science and society past and present; history of science in America; history of modern physics; history of modern biology, scientific fraud and misconduct; history of intellectual property in living organisms; history of science, arms, and the state
Current Projects
Dr. Kevles's teaching areas are the history of modern science, including genetics, physics, science in American society.Selected Publications
- 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 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).
- International Eugenics, in Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Holocaust Museum, 2004), pp. 41-60
- Big Chill in Biotechnology, Technology Review (July 2003)
- Ownership and Identity: The Drive to Manipulate DNA Has Changed the Economy and the Law, The Scientist, Jan. 13, 2003
