Tissue Culture in Science and Society [electronic resource] : The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain /
Wilson, D.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 'Make Dry Bones Live': Tissue Culture at the Cambridge Research Hospital; 3 'Could You Love a Chemical Baby?' Organ Culture in Interwar Britain; 4 Converting Human Material into Tissue Culture, c.1910-70; 5 'A Cell is Not an Animal': Negotiating Species Boundaries in the 1960s and 1970s; 6 Nobody's Thing? Consent, Ownership, and the Politics of Tissue Culture; 7 Epilogue: Tissues in Culture; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Civilization—History.
History.
Great Britain—History.
Popular works.
Social history.
Medicine—History.
Cultural History.
History of Science.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Popular Science, general.
Social History.
History of Medicine.