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050 0 0 _aMED QH585.2
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100 1 _aWilson, Duncan,
245 1 0 _aTissue culture in science and society :
260 _aHoundmills, Basingstoke ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2011.
300 _ax, 183 p. :
_bill. ;
490 1 _aScience, technology, and medicine in modern history
505 0 _aIntroduction -- '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.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aTissue culture
650 0 _aCell culture
650 0 _aEmbryology, Human
650 0 _aEmbryology, Experimental
942 _cBK
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