Tissue Culture in Science and Society: The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain

Author:   D. Wilson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2011
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9781349329458


Pages:   183
Publication Date:   28 July 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Tissue Culture in Science and Society: The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain


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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.

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Author:   D. Wilson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2011
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349329458


ISBN 10:   1349329452
Pages:   183
Publication Date:   28 July 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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


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


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


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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.

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