Forgotten clones : the birth of cloning and the biological revolution / Nathan Crowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowe, Nathan, author.

Series:

Science, Values, and the Public.

Science, Values, and the Public

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloning--History.

Cloning.

Biology--Social aspects.

Biology.

Genetic engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Birth of cloning and the biological revolution

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Long before scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American embryologist and aspiring cancer researcher Robert Briggs successfully developed the technique of nuclear transplantation using frogs in 1952. Although the history of cloning is often associated with contemporary ethical controversies, Forgotten Clones revisits the influential work of scientists like Briggs, Thomas King, and Marie DiBerardino, before the possibility of human cloning and its ethical implications first registered as a concern in public consciousness, and when many thought the very idea of cloning was experimentally impossible. By focusing instead on new laboratory techniques and practices and their place in Anglo-American science and society in the mid-twentieth century, Nathan Crowe demonstrates how embryos constructed in the lab were only later reconstructed as ethical problems in the 1960s and 1970s with the emergence of what was then referred to as the Biological Revolution. His book illuminates the importance of the early history of cloning for the biosciences and their institutional, disciplinary, and intellectual contexts, as well as providing new insights into the changing cultural perceptions of the biological sciences after [the] Second World War." -- Amazon.

Contents:

Part I: Rethinking the origins of nuclear transplantation

Beyond Spemann's "Fantastical" experiment

Making the technique work for cancer

Part II: The circulation of nuclear transplantation in the 1950s and 1960s

A focus on potency

New uses for nuclear transplantation in practice and imagination

Part III: The construction of nuclear transplantation as a bioethical problem

Nuclear transplantation and human cloning in the 1960s

Bioethics and the biological revolution.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822987680 (electronic bk.)

0822987686 (electronic bk.)

0822946270

9780822946274

OCLC:

1285169794