Introduction -- 'Make Dry Bones Live': Tissue Culture at the Cambridge Research Hospital -- 'Could You Love a Chemical Baby?' Organ Culture in Interwar Britain -- Converting Human Material into Tissue Culture, c.1910-70 -- 'A Cell is Not an Animal': Negotiating Species in the 1960s and 1970s -- Nobody's Thing? Consent, Ownership and the Politics of Tissue Culture -- Epilogue: Tissues in Culture.

"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"--