Making Mice (eBook)

Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955

Karen Rader (Autor)

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2018
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18758-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. Karen Rader introduces us to mouse "fanciers" who bred mice for different characteristics, to scientific entrepreneurs like geneticist C. C. Little, and to the emerging structures of modern biomedical research centered around the National Institutes of Health. Throughout Making Mice, Rader explains how the story of mouse research illuminates our understanding of key issues in the history of science such as the role of model organisms in furthering scientific thought. Ultimately, genetically standardized mice became icons of standardization in biomedicine by successfully negotiating the tension between the natural and the man-made in experimental practice. This book will become a landmark work for its understanding of the cultural and institutional origins of modern biomedical research. It will appeal not only to historians of science but also to biologists and medical researchers.

Autor

Karen Rader is Marilyn Simpson Chair of Science and Society at Sarah Lawrence College.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Abraham Flexner • animal rights • Animal testing • Arthur Compton • Atomic Age • Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission • Baruj Benacerraf • Battle Creek Sanitarium • Big Science • biologist • Biology • Biotechnology • Birth Control • Breast Cancer • Bruno Latour • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists • Cancer Research • Cancer Research Institute • C. C. Little • Charles Darwin • Charles Vacanti • Charlotte Auerbach • Classical genetics • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory • DEPT (medicine) • Drosophila • Edward Teller • Embryology • ENU • E. R. Squibb • Eugene Wigner • Eugenics • Fancy mouse • Fellow of the Royal Society • Funding • General Education Board • geneticist • george beadle • gunther stent • Harvard University • Herbert Spencer Jennings • heredity • Hermann Joseph Muller • house mouse • Howard Hughes Medical Institute • human genome project • Inbred strain • Inbreeding • Inception • Institution • Jackson Laboratory • jacques monod • James F. Crow • Jan Sapp • J. B. S. Haldane • Jean Dausset • Johannes Fibiger • Laboratory mouse • Leslie Brent • Louis Fieser • Mammary tumor • Max Theiler • medical genetics • Medical Research • medical school • Mendelian Inheritance • model organism • Mold • Molecular Biology • Mutation • mutation frequency • mutation rate • Nicholas Wade • organism • Organ procurement • Pasteur Institute • pasteurization • Pathology • Phage group • Philosophy of Biology • Physician • Progressive Era • Prometheus Books • Research Program • Robert N. Proctor • Robert Yerkes • Sewall Wright • Sharon Begley • Smithsonian Institution • Social Security Act • Theodosius Dobzhansky • The Social Transformation of American Medicine • The Tumor • Thomas Hunt Morgan • Virology • Vivisection • Warren Weaver • william bateson • Working Group • Works Progress Administration
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18758-4 / 0691187584
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18758-7 / 9780691187587