Forgotten clones : the birth of cloning and the biological revolution

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

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...

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Main Author: Crowe, Nathan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Series:Project Muse ebook purchased.
Subjects:
Cloning > History.
Biology > Social aspects.
Genetic engineering.
Electronic resources (E-books)
History.
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:This was purchased from Project Muse with an unlimited, DRM-free license.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross community.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Rethinking the origins of nuclear transplantation
  • 1. Beyond Spemann's "fantastical" experiment
  • 2. Making the technique work for cancer
  • Part II: The circulation of nuclear transplantation in the 1950s and 1960s
  • 3. A focus on potency
  • 4. New uses for nuclear transplantation in practice and imagination
  • Part III: The construction of nuclear transplantation as a bioethical problem
  • 5. Nuclear transplantation and human cloning in the 1960s
  • 6. Bioethics and the Biological Revolution.

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