Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955 - Couverture rigide

Rader, Karen

 
9780691016368: Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955
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ISBN 10 : 0691016364 ISBN 13 : 9780691016368
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691016364
ISBN 13 
9780691016368
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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