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

Cover
......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Abbreviations......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 ‘Make Dry Bones Live’: Tissue Culture at the Cambridge Research Hospital......Page 15
Constructing tissue culture......Page 16
Tissue culture at the Cambridge Research Hospital......Page 19
‘The malignant entity’: Tissue culture in the popular sphere......Page 27
Conclusions......Page 38
3 ‘Could You Love a Chemical Baby?’ Organ Culture in Interwar Britain......Page 40
The development of organ culture......Page 41
Organ culture and ‘test-tube babies’......Page 45
Conclusions......Page 63
4 Converting Human Material into Tissue Culture, c.1910–70......Page 65
Standing at the shoulder of surgeons: Acquiring human tissue c.1910–45......Page 66
Medical relevance and popular coverage in postwar Britain......Page 70
‘An almost untapped resource’: The increasing demand for human tissue......Page 76
Conclusions......Page 79
5 ‘A Cell is Not an Animal’: Negotiating Species Boundaries in the 1960s and 1970s......Page 81
Creating hybrid cells......Page 82
Hybrid cells and The Biological Time-Bomb......Page 87
Replacing experimental animals with tissue culture......Page 92
Conclusions......Page 101
6 Nobody’s Thing? Consent, Ownership, and the Politics of Tissue Culture......Page 103
Pro-life politics and foetal tissue culture......Page 104
Who owns WI-38? Tissue culture goes to court......Page 110
Commercialism and its discontents: Struggles over consent and ownership in the 1980s......Page 112
Britain: Debating policy and surveying public opinion in the 1980s and 1990s......Page 118
Retained organs and new legislation: Human tissue in the twenty-first century......Page 122
Conclusions......Page 126
7 Epilogue: Tissues in Culture......Page 128
Notes......Page 136
References......Page 170
Index......Page 189