Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955 - Tapa dura

Rader, Karen

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

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

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

De la contraportada

"This energetic and elegantly written book represents a landmark study of the role of model organisms in the history of science. Blending biography, institutional history, and history of biology, Rader shows how mice came to feature so prominently in twentieth-century (and, indeed, twenty-first century) biomedical research."--Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University

"Engagingly written, Making Mice tells the story of the laboratory mouse and its diverse allies. It is a major contribution to the field."--Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania

"This is a very engaging account of the rise of the mouse as a star of biomedical research during the twentieth century, and the central role C. C. Little played in 'selling' the mouse (in all senses of the phrase) to both scientists and the public."--Lee Silver, Princeton University

De la solapa interior

"This energetic and elegantly written book represents a landmark study of the role of model organisms in the history of science. Blending biography, institutional history, and history of biology, Rader shows how mice came to feature so prominently in twentieth-century (and, indeed, twenty-first century) biomedical research."--Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University

"Engagingly written, Making Mice tells the story of the laboratory mouse and its diverse allies. It is a major contribution to the field."--Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania

"This is a very engaging account of the rise of the mouse as a star of biomedical research during the twentieth century, and the central role C. C. Little played in 'selling' the mouse (in all senses of the phrase) to both scientists and the public."--Lee Silver, Princeton University

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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0691016364
ISBN 13 
9780691016368
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Número de páginas
320
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