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
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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
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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
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The Green Revolution in the Global South

Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences

University of Alabama Press

A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution

  • Copyright year: 2020
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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
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Physicians for the People

Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970

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
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