Tissue culture in science and society: the public life of a biological technique in twentieth century Britain

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 tocurrent debates surrounding research on human and animal tissue. 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. INDICE: 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 - ConvertingHuman Material into Tissue Culture, c.1910b70 - '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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28427-2
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 196
• Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés