Molecularizing biology and medicine
Subtitle: new practices and alliances, 1910s-1970s
By: ed. by Soraya de Chadarevian and Harmke Kamminga.
Contributors: Chadarevian, Soraya de.; Kamminga, Harmke.
Series: Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine;; v. 6
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers; Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Molecular biology -- History -- 20th century; Pathology, Molecular -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes index and bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Plants, cells and bodies; the molecular biography of Colchicine, 1930-1975 / Jordan Goodman; title: Chemistry in the clinic: the research career of Donald Dexter Van Slyke / Olga Amserdamska; title: Vitamins and dynamics of molecularizaton: biochemistry, policy and industry in Britain, 1914-1939 / Harmke Kammings; title: Producing molecular therapeutics from human blood: Edwin Cohn's wartime enterprise / Angela N.H. Creager; title: The molecularization of cancer etiology in the postwar United States: instruments, politics and management / Jean-Paul Gaudilliere; title: Following molecules: hemoglobin between the clinic and the laboratory / Soraya de Chadarevian; title: The struggle over metabolic screening / Diane B. Paul and Paul J. Edelson; title: "A'cage' of ovulating females": the history of the early oral contraceptive pill clinical trials, 1950-1959 / Lara Marks; title: Immunotherapy of cancer from Coley's toxins to interfereon: molecularization of a therapeutic practice / Ilana Lowy; title: reflections: molecularization, standardization and the history of science / Steve Sturdy.