{"product_id":"making-mice-standardizing-animals-for-american-biomedical-research-19001955-9780691016368","title":"Making Mice  Standardizing Animals for American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. This work introduces us to mouse \"fanciers\" who bred mice for different characteristics, and to the structures of modern biomedical research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004 \"Extremely well written and enjoyable to read... The study of human diseases using standardized animal models has now become routine practice, but its acceptability was established in large part through the use of inbred mice, as Rader convincingly argues.\"--Rachel A. Ankeny, American Scientist \"A brilliant synthesis of scientific, intellectual, and cultural history. Its subject matter is new, and the book's ultimate impact on scientific history will be significant. The product of ten years of research and writing, the tome is polished, cogent, and magnificently documented.\"--Choice \"Karen Rader has written an insightful and, at times, humorous chronological history of the famous Jax mice and their unflagging promoter, C.C. Little... Rader beautifully illustrates the give and take between the scientific community and the general society.\"--Biology Digest \"In this compelling historical analysis, Karen Rader shows how the common mouse (Mus musculus) was transformed into a commodity, manufactured, and marketed not only to American research laboratories, but to politicians, health policy makers, and the members of the general public as well.\"--Susan E. Lederer, Journal of the History of Biology \"Rader's carefully researched and well-produced book will be indispensable reading for everyone interested in the laboratory mouse and more generally in the tools and practices of twentieth-century biomedicine.\"--Soraya de Chadarevian,Journal of the History of medicine and Allied Sciences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations ix  Acknowledgments xiii  Abbreviations xvii  INTRODUCTION: Why Mice? 1  CHAPTER ONE: Mice, Medicine, and Genetics: From Pet Rodents to Research Materials (1900-21) 25  CHAPTER TWO: Experiment and Change: Institutionalizing Inbred Mice (1922-30) 59  CHAPTER THREE: Mice for Sale: Commodifying Research Animals (1930-33) 97  CHAPTER FOUR: A New Deal for Mice: Biomedicine as Big Science (1933-40) 135  CHAPTER FIVE: R X Mouse : JAX Mice in Cancer Research (1938-55) 175  CHAPTER SIX: Mouse Genetics as Public Policy: Radiation Risk in Cold War America (1946-56) 221  EPILOGUE: Animals and the New Biology: Oncomouse and Beyond 251  Bibliography 269  Index 293","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037263069527,"sku":"9780691016368","price":66.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691016368.jpg?v=1750935043","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-mice-standardizing-animals-for-american-biomedical-research-19001955-9780691016368","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}