D. Wilson

Tissue Culture in Science and Society

The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'. It shows how tissue culture was a regular public presence in twentieth-century Britain, and argues that history can contribute to current debates surrounding research on human and animal tissue.

Produktdetails

• Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-28427-2
• 2011
• Seitenzahl: 183
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780230284272
• ISBN-10: 0230284272
• Artikelnr.: 33723037

Autorenporträt

DUNCAN WILSON is a Wellcome Trust Researcher at the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Historian of Biology and Medicine in twentieth-century Britain. His research looks at the history of tissue culture, debates on animal behaviour, academic reforms of biological science, and the emergence of bioethics in Britain and the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 'Make Dry Bones Live': Tissue Culture at the Cambridge Research Hospital 'Could You Love a Chemical Baby?' Organ Culture in Interwar Britain Converting Human Material into Tissue Culture, c.1910-70 'A Cell is Not an Animal': Negotiating Species in the 1960s and 1970s Nobody's Thing? Consent, Ownership and the Politics of Tissue Culture Epilogue: Tissues in Culture Notes Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

'Duncan Wilson's monograph offers a fascinating insight into the cultural history of tissue culture...For all of us who are interested in today's controversies about the scientific and medical use of the human body, there is no doubt that Wilson's book is a must read.' -David Reubi, University of Sussex, Social History of Medicine '...Tissue Culture in Science and Society is a welcome addition to the critical-historical literature on life in vitro. Well crafter and a pleasure to read, it is accessible to non-specialists while placing itself clear within the scholarly literature. Above all, Wilson is to be congratulated for direct and sustained engagement with issues in current policy, while sensitively breaking new historical ground.' - Dmitriy Myelnikov, University of Cambridge, British Journal of Historical Science

"This is a widely significant and ambitious volume notwithstanding

its small size and seemingly esoteric subject matter...The book joins a small but

important literature that deals with the space shared

between laboratory scientists with their disciplinary

concerns and the wider public sphere." - Robert Budd, American Historical Review