Tissue Culture in Science and Society

The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-28427-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 183 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.