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摘要

Science with a social conscience has been Jon Beckwith's lifelong mission. He first warned about the possible dangers of genetic engineering in 1969. His attempts to bring responsibility to research have drawn ire from many quarters-amongthem the Ku Klux Klan and his own colleagues. He now runs a course at Harvard Medical School on the social implications of science. He talks to Maggie McDonald about two of his greatest loves: politics and E. coll