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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: D. WilsonPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.432kg ISBN: 9780230284272ISBN 10: 0230284272 Pages: 183 Publication Date: 28 July 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsThis 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 '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 '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 Author InformationDUNCAN 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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