Research Catalog

Title

Making mice : standardizing animals for American biomedical research, 1900-1955 / Karen A. Rader.

Author

Rader, Karen A. (Karen Ann), 1967-

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xviii, 299 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"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.

Subject

• Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Me.)
• Mice as laboratory animals > History
• Mice > genetics
• Biomedical Research > history
• Laboratories > history
• United States

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University, 1995.

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

Introduction: Why Mice? -- Ch. 1. Mice, Medicine, and Genetics: From Pet Rodents to Research Materials (1900-21) -- Ch. 2. Experiment and Change: Institutionalizing Inbred Mice (1922-30) -- Ch. 3. Mice for Sale: Commodifying Research Animals (1930-33) -- Ch. 4. A New Deal for Mice: Biomedicine as Big Science (1933-40) -- Ch. 5. RxMouse: JAX Mice in Cancer Research (1938-55) -- Ch. 6. Mouse Genetics as Public Policy: Radiation Risk in Cold War America (1946-56) -- Epilogue: Animals and the New Biology: Oncomouse and Beyond.

ISBN

0691016364 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003054715

OCLC

• ocm52388042
• SCSB-8854917

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries