Making mice : standardizing animals for American biomedical research, 1900-1955 /

"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 b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Temas:
Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Me.)
M.A.U.S.-Austria
Mice as laboratory animals > History.
Mice > genetics
Laboratories > history
Biomedical Research > history
Souris (Animal de laboratoire) > Histoire.
46.90 laboratory animal science.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Mice as laboratory animals.
Versuchstiere
Biomedizin
Wissenschaftsentwicklung
Maus
Proefdieren.
Muizen.
Standaardisatie.
Möss > genetik.
Möss som försöksdjur.
Försöksdjur.
Maus.
United States
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why mice?
  • Mice, medicine, and genetics: from pet rodents to research materials (1900-21)
  • Experiment and change: institutionalizing inbred mice (1922-30)
  • Mice for sale: commodifying research animals (1930-33)
  • A new deal for mice: biomedicine as big science (1933-40)
  • RxMouse: JAX mice in cancer research (1938-55)
  • Mouse genetics as public policy: radiation risk in Cold War America (1946-56)
  • Animals and the new biology: Oncomouse and beyond.

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