Making Mice : : Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955 / / Karen Rader.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rader, Karen,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. Karen Rader introduces us to mouse "fanciers" who bred mice for different characteristics, to scientific entrepreneurs like geneticist C. C. Little, and to the emerging structures of modern biomedical research centered around the National Institutes of Health. Throughout Making Mice, 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 become a landmark work for its understanding of the cultural and institutional origins of modern biomedical research. It will appeal not only to historians of science but also to biologists and medical researchers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. Why Mice? -- CHAPTER ONE. Mice, Medicine, and Genetics: From Pet Rodents to Research Materials (1900-21) -- CHAPTER TWO. Experiment and Change: Institutionalizing Inbred Mice (1922-30) -- CHAPTER THREE. Mice for Sale: Commodifying Research Animals (1930-33) -- CHAPTER FOUR. A New Deal for Mice: Biomedicine as Big Science (1933-40) -- CHAPTER FIVE. RXMouse: JAX Mice in Cancer Research (1938-55) -- CHAPTER SIX. Mouse Genetics as Public Policy: Radiation Risk in Cold War America (1946-56) -- EPILOGUE. Animals and the New Biology: Oncomouse and Beyond -- Bibliography -- Index