Tissue Culture in Science and Society: The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349329458)

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Tissue Culture in Science and Society: The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain

$54.99

Tissue Culture in Science and Society: The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: D. Wilson
ISBN-10: 1349329452
ISBN-13: 9781349329458
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2011
Pages: 183
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d
By D. Wilson
By D. Wilson
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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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