Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955

by KarenRader (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $84.28

  Blends 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.