Alan I Marcus
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Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s
University of Alabama Press
Addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies
- Copyright year: 1996
Malignant Growth
Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915
University of Alabama Press
An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Copyright year: 2018
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
Science as Service is a collection of essays that traces the development of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act of 1862, and documents how their faith and efforts in science and technology gave credibility and power to these institutions and their scientists.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Green Revolution in the Global South
Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences
By R. Douglas Hurt; Foreword by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution
- Copyright year: 2020
Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
Completing a comprehensive history of America’s land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- Copyright year: 2015
Physicians for the People
Black Doctors and the Struggle for Healthcare Equality in Alabama, 1870—1970
By Jack D. Ellis; Foreword by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
In Physicians for the People, Jack D. Ellis illuminates the post-Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives, highlighting both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in medical professions.
- Copyright year: 2025