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  1. The molecular vista: current perspectives on molecules and life in the twentieth century.Mathias Grote, Lisa Onaga, Angela N. H. Creager, Soraya de Chadarevian, Daniel Liu, Gina Surita & Sarah E. Tracy - 2021 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43 (1):1-18.
    This essay considers how scholarly approaches to the development of molecular biology have too often narrowed the historical aperture to genes, overlooking the ways in which other objects and processes contributed to the molecularization of life. From structural and dynamic studies of biomolecules to cellular membranes and organelles to metabolism and nutrition, new work by historians, philosophers, and STS scholars of the life sciences has revitalized older issues, such as the relationship of life to matter, or of physicochemical inquiries to (...)
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  2. Science without Laws. Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives.Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck & M. Norton Wise - 2008 - Journal of the History of Biology 41 (1):199-202.
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    Wendell Stanley's dream of a free-standing biochemistry department at the University of California, Berkeley.Angela N. H. Creager - 1996 - Journal of the History of Biology 29 (3):331-360.
    Scientists and historians have often presumed that the divide between biochemistry and molecular biology is fundamentally epistemological.100 The historiography of molecular biology as promulgated by Max Delbrück's phage disciples similarly emphasizes inherent differences between the archaic tradition of biochemistry and the approach of phage geneticists, the ur molecular biologists. A historical analysis of the development of both disciplines at Berkeley mitigates against accepting predestined differences, and underscores the similarities between the postwar development of biochemistry and the emergence of molecular biology (...)
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    After the Double Helix.Angela N. H. Creager & Gregory J. Morgan - 2008 - Isis 99 (2):239-272.
    ABSTRACT Rosalind Franklin is best known for her informative X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA that provided vital clues for James Watson and Francis Crick's double-stranded helical model. Her scientific career did not end when she left the DNA work at King's College, however. In 1953 Franklin moved to J. D. Bernal's crystallography laboratory at Birkbeck College, where she shifted her focus to the three-dimensional structure of viruses, obtaining diffraction patterns of Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) of unprecedented detail and clarity. During (...)
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    Nuclear Energy in the Service of Biomedicine: The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s Radioisotope Program, 1946–1950.Angela N. H. Creager - 2006 - Journal of the History of Biology 39 (4):649-684.
    The widespread adoption of radioisotopes as tools in biomedical research and therapy became one of the major consequences of the "physicists' war" for postwar life science. Scientists in the Manhattan Project, as part of their efforts to advocate for civilian uses of atomic energy after the war, proposed using infrastructure from the wartime bomb project to develop a government-run radioisotope distribution program. After the Atomic Energy Bill was passed and before the Atomic Energy Commission was formally established, the Manhattan Project (...)
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    To Test or Not to Test: Tools, Rules, and Corporate Data in US Chemicals Regulation.Angela N. H. Creager - 2021 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 46 (5):975-997.
    When the Toxic Substances Control Act was passed by the US Congress in 1976, its advocates pointed to new generation of genotoxicity tests as a way to systematically screen chemicals for carcinogenicity. However, in the end, TSCA did not require any new testing of commercial chemicals, including these rapid laboratory screens. In addition, although the Environmental Protection Agency was to make public data about the health effects of industrial chemicals, companies routinely used the agency’s obligation to protect confidential business information (...)
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    Tracing the politics of changing postwar research practices: the export of ‘American’ radioisotopes to European biologists.Angela N. H. Creager - 2002 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 33 (3):367-388.
    This paper examines the US Atomic Energy Commission’s radioisotope distribution program, established in 1946, which employed the uranium piles built for the wartime bomb project to produce specific radioisotopes for use in scientific investigation and medical therapy. As soon as the program was announced, requests from researchers began pouring into the Commission’s office. During the first year of the program alone over 1000 radioisotope shipments were sent out. The numerous requests that came from scientists outside the United States, however, sparked (...)
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  8. `What Blood Told Dr Cohn': World War II, Plasma Fractionation, and the Growth of Human Blood Research.Angela N. H. Creager - 1999 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 30 (3):377-405.
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    Human bodies as chemical sensors: A history of biomonitoring for environmental health and regulation.Angela N. H. Creager - 2018 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 70:70-81.
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    Phosphorus-32 in the Phage Group: radioisotopes as historical tracers of molecular biology.Angela N. H. Creager - 2009 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 40 (1):29-42.
    The recent historiography of molecular biology features key technologies, instruments and materials, which offer a different view of the field and its turning points than preceding intellectual and institutional histories. Radioisotopes, in this vein, became essential tools in postwar life science research, including molecular biology, and are here analyzed through their use in experiments on bacteriophage. Isotopes were especially well suited for studying the dynamics of chemical transformation over time, through metabolic pathways or life cycles. Scientists labeled phage with phosphorus-32 (...)
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    Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives.Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, M. Norton Wise, Barbara Herrnstein Smith & E. Roy Weintraub (eds.) - 2007 - Duke University Press.
    Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to, manipulating, observing, interpreting, and reinterpreting certain subjects—such as flies, mice, worms, or microbes—or, as they are known in biology, “model systems.” Across the natural and social sciences, other disciplinary fields have developed canonical examples that (...)
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    Model Organisms Unbound.Angela N. H. Creager - 2022 - Journal of the History of Biology 55 (1):21-28.
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    The J. H. B. Bookshelf.Alix Cooper, Elizabeth Hanson, Kathy J. Cooke & Angela N. H. Creager - 1997 - Journal of the History of Biology 30 (1):135-144.
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    Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA.Angela N. H. Creager - 2010 - Annals of Science 67 (2):265-268.
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    Essay Review: Building Biology across the Atlantic.Angela N. H. Creager - 2003 - Journal of the History of Biology 36 (3):579-589.
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    “Happily ever after” for cancer viruses?Angela N. H. Creager - 2014 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 48:260-262.
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  17. Research Materials and Model Organisms in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences-Introduction: Research Materials and Model Organisms in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences.Gerald L. Geison & Angela N. H. Creager - 1999 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 30 (3):315-318.
  18. Essay Review-How Constructive is Deconstruction?Manfred D. Laubichler & Angela N. H. Creager - 1999 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 30 (1):129.
     
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    Radiobiology in the Atomic Age: Changing Research Practices and Policies in Comparative Perspective. [REVIEW]Angela N. H. Creager & María Jesús Santesmases - 2006 - Journal of the History of Biology 39 (4):637 - 647.
    This essay introduces a special collection of papers by Angela Creager, Soraya de Chadarevian, Karen Rader, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, and María Jesús Santesmases on the theme "Radiobiology in the Atomic Age.".
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    The Paradox of the Phage Group: Essay Review. [REVIEW]Angela N. H. Creager - 2010 - Journal of the History of Biology 43 (1):183 - 193.
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    (1 other version)Alan H. Goodman;, Deborah Heath;, M. Susan Lindee . Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science beyond the Two‐Culture Divide. xvii + 311 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. $24.95. [REVIEW]Angela N. H. Creager - 2006 - Isis 97 (4):788-790.
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    (1 other version)Douglas M. Surgenor. Edwin J. Cohn and the Development of Protein Chemistry: With a Detailed Account of His Work on the Fractionation of Blood During and After World War II. xx+434 pp., frontis., illus., index. Boston: Center for Blood Research, 2002. $34.95, £23.95, €34.95. [REVIEW]Angela N. H. Creager - 2003 - Isis 94 (4):763-765.
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    (1 other version)Mike Fortun. Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation. ix + 330 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. $24.95. [REVIEW]Angela N. H. Creager - 2009 - Isis 100 (4):944-945.
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    María Jesús Santesmases. The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority , XI, 239 pp., 8 b/w 1 color illus., $99.99 Hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-319-69717-8. [REVIEW]Angela N. H. Creager - 2019 - Journal of the History of Biology 52 (1):199-201.
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    M. Norton Wise. Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society. 432 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. $45 (cloth); ISBN 9780226531359. E-book available. [REVIEW]Angela N. H. Creager - 2021 - Isis 112 (1):202-203.