Tissue culture in science and society the public life of a biological technique in twentieth century Britain / [electronic resource] :

• 作者： Wilson, Duncan, Dr.
• 其他作者：
  • Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• 其他題名：
  • Science, technology, and medicine in modern history
• 出版： New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Science, technology and medicine in modern history
• 主題： Tissue culture--Great Britain--History--20th century. , Cell culture--Great Britain--History--20th century. , Embryology, Human--Great Britain--History--20th century. , Embryology, Experimental--History--20th century. , Tissue culture , Natural history , Science , HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain. , HISTORY--Modern--20th Century. , HISTORY--Social History. , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9780230307513 (electronic bk.) 、 0230307515 (electronic bk.) 、 9780230318618 、 0230318614 、 9780230284272 (Cloth) 、 0230284272 (Cloth)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 -- Converting Human Material into Tissue Culture, c.1910b6s70 -- '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. Machine generated contents note: -- 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 -- 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 -- Index. Includes index.
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• 摘要註: Tissue Culture in Science and Society sheds new light on the biological technique known as 'tissue culture', showing how it featured regularly in British newspapers, magazines and novels, and appeared in cinema and on television throughout the twentieth century. It details how tissue culture was given meaning thanks to interplay between scientific and cultural concerns, including the modernist reappraisal of lifespan, the body and reproduction, postwar enthusiasm for 'magic bullets' and more recent discussion of patient rights. By highlighting this interaction, and charting tissue culture's history through to the present day, Wilson provides much needed context and balance for current debates. "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"--
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