Tissue Culture in Science and Society

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Duncan Wilson

   Pages 1-3

3. ‘Make Dry Bones Live’: Tissue Culture at the Cambridge Research Hospital

   • Duncan Wilson

   Pages 4-28

4. ‘Could You Love a Chemical Baby?’ Organ Culture in Interwar Britain

   • Duncan Wilson

   Pages 29-53

5. Converting Human Material into Tissue Culture, c.1910–70

   • Duncan Wilson

   Pages 54-69

6. ‘A Cell is Not an Animal’: Negotiating Species Boundaries in the 1960s and 1970s

   • Duncan Wilson

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7. Nobody’s Thing? Consent, Ownership, and the Politics of Tissue Culture

   • Duncan Wilson

   Pages 92-116

8. Epilogue: Tissues in Culture

   • Duncan Wilson

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9. Back Matter

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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.

• 20th century
• argue
• Britain
• corpus
• cultural history
• culture
• Great Britain
• history
• history of literature
• hospital
• love
• organ
• politics
• society
• twentieth century

"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

• University of Manchester, UK

  Duncan Wilson

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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