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    How to produce ‘marketable and profitable results for the company’: from viral interference to Roferon A.Carsten Timmermann - 2019 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 41 (3):30.
    This paper looks at the commodification of interferon, marketed by Hoffmann La Roche as Roferon A in 1986, as a case study that helps us understand the role of pharmaceutical industry in cancer research, the impact of molecular biology on cancer therapy, and the relationships between biotech start-ups and established pharmaceutical firms. Drawing extensively on materials from the Roche company archives, the paper traces interferon’s trajectory from observed phenomenon to product. Roche embraced molecular biology in the late 1960s to prepare (...)
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    Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine - by Jeremy A. Greene.Carsten Timmermann - 2015 - Centaurus 57 (2):119-120.
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    Before translational medicine: laboratory-clinic relations.Michael Worboys, Carsten Timmermann & Elizabeth Toon - 2021 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43 (2):1-5.
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    ALLEN B. WEISSE, Heart to Heart: The Twentieth-Century Battle Against Cardiac Disease. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+415. ISBN 0-8135-3157-8. $35.00. [REVIEW]Carsten Timmermann - 2004 - British Journal for the History of Science 37 (3):363-364.
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    HARRY M. MARKS, The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeutic Reform in the United States, 1900–1990. Cambridge History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+258. ISBN 0-521-78561-8. £14.95, $19.95. [REVIEW]Carsten Timmermann - 2005 - British Journal for the History of Science 38 (1):118-119.
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    (1 other version)Ilana Löwy. Preventive Strikes: Women, Precancer, and Prophylactic Surgery. xi + 328 pp., illus., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. $50. [REVIEW]Carsten Timmermann - 2012 - Isis 103 (2):386-387.
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    (1 other version)Jordan Goodman and Vivien Walsh, the story of taxol: Nature and politics in the pursuit of an anti-cancer drug. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2001. Pp. XIII+282. £18.95, $27.95. [REVIEW]Carsten Timmermann - 2003 - British Journal for the History of Science 36 (1):87-127.
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    (1 other version)Kirk Jeffrey, machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and american health care. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins university press, 2001. Pp. XIII+370. Isbn 0-8018-6579-4. 33.00. [REVIEW]Carsten Timmermann - 2003 - British Journal for the History of Science 36 (2):251-252.
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    (1 other version)Nikolai krementsov, the cure: A story of cancer and politics from the annals of the cold war. Chicago and London: University of chicago press, 2002. Pp. XVI+261. Isbn 0-226-45284-0. £16.50, $26.00. [REVIEW]Carsten Timmermann - 2003 - British Journal for the History of Science 36 (3):377-378.
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    Robert Jütte . Medical Pluralism: Past—Present—Future. 205 pp., illus., bibls. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. €39. [REVIEW]Carsten Timmermann - 2016 - Isis 107 (2):373-374.
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    (1 other version)ROBERT N. PROCTOR, The Nazi War on Cancer. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. x+380. ISBN 0-691-07051-2. £10·50, $16.95. [REVIEW]Carsten Timmermann - 2002 - British Journal for the History of Science 35 (2):213-250.
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    THOMAS H. BROMAN, The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x+209. ISBN 0-521-55321-1. £35.00, $54.95. [REVIEW]Carsten Timmermann - 1998 - British Journal for the History of Science 31 (4):469-487.
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