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.
This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'. It shows how tissue culture was a regular publ...
Recent decades have witnessed profound shifts in the politics of medicine and the biological sciences. Members of several professions, including philosophers, lawyers and social scientists, now discuss and help regulate issues that were once left to doctors and scientists, in a form of outside involvement known as 'bioethics'. The Making of British Bioethics provides the first in-depth study of the growing demand for this outside involvement in Britain, where bioethicists have become renowned and influential 'ethics experts'. The book moves beyond existing histories, which often claim...
Recent decades have witnessed profound shifts in the politics of medicine and the biological sciences. Members of several professions, including philo...
"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"--
"This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as "tissue culture." It shows how tissue culture was a regular pub...
