The Forgotten Clones

How Nuclear Transplantation Changed Science and Society

Nathan Crowe

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English

University of Pittsburgh Press
01 February 2022

Philosophy of science; Popular science; Genetics (non-medical); Genetic engineering

Series: Science, Values, and the Public

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 contemporary ethical controversies, Forgotten Clones revisits the influential work of scientists like Briggs, Thomas King, and Marie DiBerardino, before the possibility of human cloning and its ethical implications first registered as a concern in public consciousness, and when many thought the very idea of cloning was experimentally impossible. By focusing instead on new laboratory techniques and practices and their place in Anglo-American science and society in the mid-twentieth century, Nathan Crowe demonstrates how embryos constructed in the lab were only later reconstructed as ethical problems in the 1960s and 1970s with the emergence of what was then referred to as the Biological Revolution. His book illuminates the importance of the early history of cloning for the biosciences and their institutional, disciplinary, and intellectual contexts, as well as providing new insights into the changing cultural perceptions of the biological sciences after Second World War.

AUTHOR: Nathan Crowe is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

By: Nathan Crowe
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780822946274
ISBN 10: 0822946270
Series: Science, Values, and the Public
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 01 February 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Nathan Crowe is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Reviews for The Forgotten Clones: How Nuclear Transplantation Changed Science and Society

Retracing the transition of nuclear transplantation from research method to reproductive technology, Forgotten Clones tells a story central to the emergence of developmental biology as the thriving field we know today. Engaging and intelligent, it will be valued alike by scientists and historians of biology. --Nicolas Rasmussen, author of Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise Goodbye, Dolly. In tracing the forgotten history of human cloning, Crowe leads us along the back roads of some of the most fertile provinces of modern biology: the search for the secret of life; the quest to conquer cancer; the perennial impulse to build a better human; the drive toward a more ethical science. Every chapter is a revelation and a delight. --Nathaniel Comfort, author of The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine