附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Plants, cells and bodies; the molecular biography of Colchicine, 1930-1975 / Jordan Goodman -- Chemistry in the clinic: the research career of Donald Dexter Van Slyke / Olga Amserdamska -- Vitamins and dynamics of molecularizaton: biochemistry, policy and industry in Britain, 1914-1939 / Harmke Kammings -- Producing molecular therapeutics from human blood: Edwin Cohn's wartime enterprise / Angela N.H. Creager -- The molecularization of cancer etiology in the postwar United States: instruments, politics and management / Jean-Paul Gaudilliere -- Following molecules: hemoglobin between the clinic and the laboratory / Soraya de Chadarevian -- The struggle over metabolic screening / Diane B. Paul and Paul J. Edelson -- "A'cage' of ovulating females": the history of the early oral contraceptive pill clinical trials, 1950-1959 / Lara Marks -- Immunotherapy of cancer from Coley's toxins to interfereon: molecularization of a therapeutic practice / Ilana Lowy -- reflections: molecularization, standardization and the history of science / Steve Sturdy.
摘要:The contributions present a coherent set of case studies of practices, technologies and stragegies aimed at the isolation, investigation, manipulation, production and uses of molecules.
