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Molecularizing biology and medicine : new practices and alliances, 1910s-1970s / ed. by Soraya de Chadarevian and Harmke Kamminga

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Author:
Chadarevian, Soraya de  Search this
Kamminga, Harmke  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1998
C1998
20th century
Notes:
Includes index and bibliographical references.
Contents:
Plants, cells and bodies; the molecular biography of Colchicine, 1930-1975 / Jordan Goodman -- Chemistry in the clinic: the research career of Donald Dexter Van Slyke / Olga Amserdamska -- Vitamins and dynamics of molecularizaton: biochemistry, policy and industry in Britain, 1914-1939 / Harmke Kammings -- Producing molecular therapeutics from human blood: Edwin Cohn's wartime enterprise / Angela N.H. Creager -- The molecularization of cancer etiology in the postwar United States: instruments, politics and management / Jean-Paul Gaudilliere -- Following molecules: hemoglobin between the clinic and the laboratory / Soraya de Chadarevian -- The struggle over metabolic screening / Diane B. Paul and Paul J. Edelson -- "A'cage' of ovulating females": the history of the early oral contraceptive pill clinical trials, 1950-1959 / Lara Marks -- Immunotherapy of cancer from Coley's toxins to interfereon: molecularization of a therapeutic practice / Ilana Lowy -- reflections: molecularization, standardization and the history of science / Steve Sturdy
Topic:
Molecular biology--History  Search this
Call number:
QH506 .M65 1998
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_555301