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

Product Description 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. Review "This is a widely significant and ambitious volume notwithstandingits small size and seemingly esoteric subject matter...The book joins a small butimportant literature that deals with the space sharedbetween laboratory scientists with their disciplinaryconcerns and the wider public sphere." - Robert Budd, American Historical Review About the Author 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.