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Author:

Rader, Karen A. (Karen Ann), 1967-

Title:

Making mice : standardizing animals for American biomedical research, 1900-1955 / Karen A. Rader.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xviii, 299 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Me.)
Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Me.)
Mice as laboratory animals--History.
Mice--genetics--United States.
Biomedical Research--history--United States.
Laboratories--history--United States.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-292) and index.

Contents:

Why mice? -- Mice, medicine, and genetics: from pet rodents to research materials (1900-21) -- Experiment and change: institutionalizing inbred mice (1922-30) -- Mice for sale: commodifying research animals (1930-33) -- A new deal for mice: biomedicine as big science (1933-40) -- RxMouse: JAX mice in cancer research (1938-55) -- Mouse genetics as public policy: radiation risk in Cold War America (1946-56) -- Animals and the new biology: Oncomouse and beyond.

ISBN:

9780691016368 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691016364 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52388042

LCCN:

2003054715

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)