The politics of macromolecules : molecular biologists, biochemists, and rhetoric / by Pnina G. Abir-Am.
Abstract:
'The politics of small versus large molecules turned out to be more than a debate over molecular size between conservative and progressive types of scientific mentalities. In the dispute between the empiricist, reductionist, and disciplinary ethos of biochemistry and the conventionalist, integrative, and transdisciplinary ethos of molecular biology, how authority in a scientific revolution was legitimated, whether as derived from nature or socially constructed, was also at stake.'
Science after '40. p. 164-191