Molecularizing Biology and Medicine: New Practices and Alliances, 1920s to 1970s

by Chadarevian,Soraya de

• ISBN13: 9789057022937
• ISBN10: 9057022931
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Franci

Summary

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Cambridge, UK. Chapters were first presented at a conference on 'Molecularizing Biology and Medicine', held in Cambridge, UK, in July 1994. Draws attention to the formation of particular strategic approaches in biology and medicine. For researchers and clinicians.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Plants, Cells and Bodies: the Molecular Biography of Colchicine, 1930-1975	p. 17
Chemistry in the Clinic: the Research Career of Donald Dexter Van Slyke	p. 47
Vitamins and the Dynamics of Molecularization: Biochemistry, Policy and Industry in Britain, 1914-1939	p. 83
Producing Molecular Therapeutics from Human Blood: Edwin Cohn's Wartime Enterprise	p. 107
References	p. 135
The Molecularization of Cancer Etiology in the Postwar United States: Instruments, Politics and Management	p. 139
Following Molecules: Hemoglobin Between the Clinic and the Laboratory	p. 171
References	p. 198
The Struggle Over Metabolic Screening	p. 203
A 'Cage' of Ovulating Females: the History of the Early Oral Contraceptive Pill Clinical Trials, 1950-1959	p. 221
Immunotherapy of Cancer from Coley's Toxins to Interferons: Molecularization of a Therapeutic Practice	p. 249
Reflections: Molecularization, Standardization and the History of Science	p. 273
References	p. 290
Index	p. 293
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