Nicolas Rasmussen
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- PhD History Princeton University
- Masters History Princeton University
- Bachelors History Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicolas "Nic" Rasmussen is a historian of modern life sciences, and a professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales. With major interests in the history of amphetamines, the history of drug abuse, and the history of clinical trials, he has higher degrees in history and philosophy of science, developmental biology, and public health.
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- The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope, Catherine Wilson. 1995. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 280 pages. $39.50 (1996) (131)
- America's first amphetamine epidemic 1929-1971: a quantitative and qualitative retrospective with implications for the present. (2008) (126)
- Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960 (1997) (92)
- On Speed : The Many Lives of Amphetamine (2008) (82)
- Making the First Anti-Depressant: Amphetamine in American Medicine, 1929-1950 (2006) (81)
- Facts, artifacts, and mesosomes: Practicing epistemology with the electron microscope (1993) (73)
- Medical Science and the Military: The Allies' Use of Amphetamine during World War II (2011) (64)
- Association of trial registration with the results and conclusions of published trials of new oncology drugs (2009) (64)
- The Moral Economy of the Drug Company–Medical Scientist Collaboration in Interwar America (2004) (56)
- The Mid-Century Biophysics Bubble: Hiroshima and the Biological Revolution in America, Revisited (1997) (56)
- The Drug Industry and Clinical Research in Interwar America: Three Types of Physician Collaborator (2005) (46)
- Amphetamine-Type Stimulants: The Early History of Their Medical and Non-Medical Uses. (2015) (45)
- Mitochondrial structure and the practice of cell biology in the 1950s (1995) (45)
- Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise (2014) (39)
- Of `Small Men', Big Science and Bigger Business: The Second World War and Biomedical Research in the United States (2002) (35)
- A new model of developmental constraints as applied to the Drosophila system. (1987) (34)
- Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine (2015) (32)
- Evolving Scientific Epistemologies and the Artifacts of Empirical Philosophy of Science: A Reply Concerning Mesosomes (2001) (32)
- Weight stigma, addiction, science, and the medication of fatness in mid-twentieth century America. (2012) (25)
- Plant Hormones in War and Peace: Science, Industry, and Government in the Development of Herbicides in 1940s America (2001) (25)
- Steroids in arms: science, government, industry, and the hormones of the adrenal cortex in the United States, 1930-1950. (2002) (25)
- Organogenesis in flowers of the homeotic green pistillate mutant of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) (1993) (24)
- What Moves When Technologies Migrate? "Software" and Hardware in the Transfer of Biological Electron Microscopy to Postwar Australia (1999) (18)
- Stigma and the addiction paradigm for obesity: lessons from 1950s America. (2015) (16)
- Maurice Seevers, the stimulants and the political economy of addiction in American biomedicine (2010) (16)
- History full circle: 'Novel' sympathomimetics in supplements. (2016) (14)
- Making Addicts of the Fat: Obesity, Psychiatry and the ‘Fatties Anonymous’ Model of Self-Help Weight Loss in the Post-War United States (2012) (11)
- Picture Control (1997) (11)
- The Forgotten Promise of Thiamin: Merck, Caltech Biologists, and Plant Hormones in a 1930s Biotechnology Project (1999) (11)
- A Quantitative and Qualitative Retrospective With Implications for the Present America's First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929-1971 (2008) (10)
- Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code (2017) (8)
- A Prescription for Psychiatry (2003) (8)
- Untangling the McClintock myths (2002) (4)
- Downsizing obesity: On Ancel Keys, the origins of BMI, and the neglect of excess weight as a health hazard in the United States from the 1950s to 1970s. (2019) (3)
- Fat in the Fifties: America's First Obesity Crisis (2019) (3)
- Biomedicine and Its Historiography: A Systematic Review (2021) (3)
- Biotechnology Before the “Biotech Revolution”: Life Scientists, Chemists, and Product Development in 1930s‐1940s America (2007) (3)
- Controlling “America’s Opium”: Barbiturate Abuse, Pharmaceutical Regulation, and the Politics of Public Health in the Early Postwar United States (2017) (3)
- Drugs: Bring Back the Good Old Days? (2004) (2)
- The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (review) (2003) (2)
- DNA Technology: ‘Moratorium’ on Use and Asilomar Conference (2015) (2)
- Instruments, Scientists, Industrialists and the Specificity of ‘Influence’: The Case of RCA and Biological Electron Microscopy (1998) (2)
- Group Weight Loss and Multiple Screening: A Tale of Two Heart Disease Programs in Postwar American Public Health (2018) (1)
- Why We Take Prozac (2005) (1)
- The Rise and Fall of the Neurotic Housewife: Patient Sex in Psychotropic Drug Advertising to Physicians 1946–1990 (2020) (1)
- On Speed (2022) (1)
- Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness: Avoiding intellectual impositions (2000) (1)
- From Maverick to Mole: John C. Burnham, Tobacco Consultant (2019) (1)
- Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA (review) (2011) (1)
- Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (2013) (1)
- Biomolecules and the Bomb (2002) (1)
- Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac (review) (2009) (1)
- Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century (2017) (1)
- Down-to-Earth Science (1998) (0)
- Book Reviews (2005) (0)
- KARL GRANDIN, NINA WORMBS and SVEN WIDMALM (eds.), The Science–Industry Nexus: History, Policy, Implications. Nobel Symposium 123. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications and the Nobel Foundation, 2004. Pp. xvii+457. ISBN 0-88135-365-5. $54.95 (hardback). (2006) (0)
- Book Reviews (2000) (0)
- Psychedelic Psychiatry: lsd from Clinic to Campus. By Erika Dyck. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvi, 199 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8994-3.) (2009) (0)
- Weight Stigma, Addiction, Science, and the Medication of Fatness in mid-20 th (2012) (0)
- Politics by Science (2003) (0)
- Evolution of Physician-Industry Relationships in Producing Knowledge of Drug Therapy - Comparison of the United States and Finland (2017) (0)
- Myles Jackson. The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race. (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xii + 336 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2015. $35 (cloth). (2016) (0)
- The Medium Is The Message (2008) (0)
- Joseph E. Spillane, Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884–1920 (2003) (0)
- Book Reviews (2006) (0)
- Science's true begetter? (2014) (0)
- Tales of the Wonder Drug (2007) (0)
- Mapping the cell: advent of the thin section and characterization of the ER (1999) (0)
- Book Review:The Eclipse of Darwinism. Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900. Peter J. Bowler (1993) (0)
- Author's response (1999) (0)
- Friends of the cactus (2021) (0)
- Lynn K. Nyhart, Biology Takes Form: Animal Morphology and the German Universities . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 414. ISBN 0-226-61086-1, £59.95, $75.00 (hardback); 0-226-61088-8, £21.95, $27.50(paperback). (1996) (0)
- Nervous Soup (2007) (0)
- Book Reviews (2009) (0)
- Caroline Jean Acker, Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 (2003) (0)
- Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America (2014) (0)
- Life Science: The French Connection (2003) (0)
- Michel Morange, The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution, trans. Michael Cobb. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 528. $45.00. ISBN 9780674281363. (2021) (0)
- Fighting Fat: Canada 1920–1980 by Wendy Mitchinson (review) (2021) (0)
- Inaugural Editorial. (2023) (0)
- Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine by Jeremy A. Greene (review) (2015) (0)
- [Book Reviews] (0)
- Book Reviews (2001) (0)
- Book reviews (2004) (0)
- On Slicing an Obvious Salami Thinly: Science, Patent Case Law, and the Fate of the Early Biotech Sector in the Making of EPO (2013) (0)
- Christer Nordlund.Hormones of Life: Endocrinology, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Dream of a Remedy for Sterility, 1930–1970. x + 297 pp., illus., bibl., index. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2011. $34.95 (paper). (2012) (0)
- Lives of a Blockbuster Drug (2006) (0)
- The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America by Matthew Oram (review) (2019) (0)
- M. Norton Wise (ed.), The Values of Precision . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp viii + 372. ISBN 0-691-03759-0. £35.00, $49.50. (1996) (0)
- René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome (2022) (0)
- Viviane Quirke, Collaboration in the pharmaceutical industry: changing relationships in Britain and France, 1935–1965 , Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, Routledge, 2008, pp. x, 365, illus., £60.00 (hardback 978-0-415-30982-0). (2009) (0)
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