Making mice
Subtitle: standardizing animals for American biomedical research, 1900-1955
By: Karen A. Rader.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Me.); Mice as laboratory animals -- History
Description: "Throughout Making Mice, Karen Rader explains how the story of mouse research illuminates our understanding of key issues in the history of science such as the role of model organisms in furthering scientific thought. Ultimately genetically standardized mice became icons of standardization in biomedicine by successfully negotiating the tension between the natural and the man-made in experimental practice." "This book will appeal not only to historians of science but also to biologists and medical researchers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-292) and index.