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Tissue Culture in Science and Society

The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain

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  • © 2011

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Part of the book series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History (STMMH)

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About this book

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.

Reviews

"This is a widely significant and ambitious volume notwithstanding

its small size and seemingly esoteric subject matter...The book joins a small but

important literature that deals with the space shared

between laboratory scientists with their disciplinary

concerns and the wider public sphere." - Robert Budd, American Historical Review

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Duncan Wilson

About the author

DUNCAN WILSON is a Wellcome Trust Researcher at the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Historian of Biology and Medicine in twentieth-century Britain. His research looks at the history of tissue culture, debates on animal behaviour, academic reforms of biological science, and the emergence of bioethics in Britain and the United States.

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