By Emeritus Professor Nicolas Rasmussen

Books

Rasmussen N, 2019, Fat in the Fifties America's First Obesity Crisis, Johns Hopkins University Press, https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/fat-fifties

Rasmussen N, 2014, Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA, https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/gene-jockeys

Rasmussen N, 2008, On Speed The Many Lives of Amphetamine, New York University Press, New York and London

, 2002, Metascience, Rasmussen N, (ed.), Springer

Rasmussen N, 1997, Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960, Stanford University Press, Stanford

Book Chapters

Rasmussen N, 2021, 'Biomedicine and Its Historiography: A Systematic Review', in Handbook of the Historiography of Biology, Springer Nature, pp. 195 - 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90119-0_12

Rasmussen N, 2018, 'Biomedicine and Its Historiography: A Systematic Review', in Dietrich M (ed.), Handbook of the Historiography of Biology, Springer Nature, Switzerland, pp. 1 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74456-8_12-1

Rasmussen N, 2015, 'DNA Technology: ‘Moratorium’ on Use and Asilomar Conference', in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Wiley, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0005613.pub2

Rasmussen N, 2014, 'Claude, Albert', in , Wiley, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0002752

Rasmussen N, 2014, 'Biology, Industry, and the Cold War', in GENE JOCKEYS: LIFE SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF BIOTECH ENTERPRISE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, pp. 9 - 39, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000362435400002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Rasmussen N, 2014, 'Epo The Making of the Biotech Blockbuster', in GENE JOCKEYS: LIFE SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF BIOTECH ENTERPRISE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, pp. 131 - 159, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000362435400006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Rasmussen N, 2014, 'Growing Pains Commercial Strains on a Way of Life', in GENE JOCKEYS: LIFE SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF BIOTECH ENTERPRISE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, pp. 72 - 100, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000362435400004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Rasmussen N, 2014, 'Science, Business, and Medicine in the First Age of Biotech CONCLUSION', in GENE JOCKEYS: LIFE SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF BIOTECH ENTERPRISE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, pp. 183 - 191, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000362435400008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Rasmussen N, 2014, 'The Insulin Trophy', in GENE JOCKEYS: LIFE SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF BIOTECH ENTERPRISE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, pp. 40 - 71, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000362435400003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Rasmussen N, 2014, 'The Interferon Derby Markets in Credit, Tournaments of Value', in GENE JOCKEYS: LIFE SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF BIOTECH ENTERPRISE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, pp. 101 - 130, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000362435400005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Rasmussen N, 2014, 'tPA The End of the Beginning', in GENE JOCKEYS: LIFE SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF BIOTECH ENTERPRISE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, pp. 160 - 182, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000362435400007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Rasmussen N, 2014, 'Biology's Day at the Races INTRODUCTION', in GENE JOCKEYS: LIFE SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF BIOTECH ENTERPRISE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, pp. 1 - +

Rasmussen N, 2012, 'Goofball Panic: Barbiturates, "Dangerous" and Addictive Drugs, and the Regulation of Medicine in Postwar America', in Greene J; Watkins ES (ed.), Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 23 - 45

Rasmussen N, 2008, 'Amphetamine Epidemics, International', in Kranzler HR; Korsmeyer P (ed.), Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol & addictive behavior, Gale Cengage, pp. 153 - 162

Rasmussen N, 2003, 'Molecular Biology', in Dictionary of American History Third Edition, Charles Scribner`s Sons, New York

Rasmussen N, 2002, 'Innovation in Chemical Separation and Detection Instruments: Reflections on the Role of Research-technology in the History of Science', in Morris P (ed.), From Classical to Modern Chemistry: The Instrumental Revolution, Royal Society of Chemistry, London, pp. 251 - 258

Rasmussen N, 2001, 'Biotechnology before the `Biotech revolution`: life scientists, chemists and product development in 1930s-1940s America', in Reinhardt C (ed.), Chemical Sciences in the 20th Century, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, pp. 201 - 227

Rasmussen N; Chalmers A, 2001, 'The role of theory in the use of instruments; or, how much do we need to know about electrons to do science with an election microscope?', in Buchwald JZ; Warwick A (ed.), Histories of the electron: the birth of microphysics, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 467 - 502

Rasmussen N, 1998, 'Instruments, Scientists, Industrialists and the Specificity of ‘Influence’: The Case of RCA and Biological Electron Microscopy', in The Invisible Industrialist, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 173 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26443-8_7

Journal articles

Rasmussen N; Kuch D, 2026, '‘Nano Scale [is] Magic Scale’: On EPR, Unicorns, and Enchantment in Nanomedicine', Social Studies of Science, 56, pp. 573 - 595, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03063127261424493

Smocovitis VB; Rasmussen N, 2026, 'Editorial Introduction: Practice and the History of Biology', Journal of the History of Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-026-09867-6

Rasmussen N, 2026, 'Tim Harris: In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey through 50 Years of Biotechnology', Journal of the History of Biology, 59, pp. 137 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-026-09857-8

Smocovitis VB; Rasmussen N, 2025, 'Introducing "Notes and Sources"', Journal of the History of Biology, 58, pp. 317, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-025-09832-9

Rasmussen N, 2025, 'Situating Commemoration: An Editorial Introduction', Journal of the History of Biology, 58, pp. 5 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-025-09811-0

Rasmussen N, 2024, 'Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis', JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 110, pp. 789 - 791, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaad394

Rasmussen N; Smocovitis VB, 2024, 'Editorial', Journal of the History of Biology, 57, pp. 3 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09768-6

Smocovitis B; Rasmussen N, 2024, 'The 2024 Everett Mendelsohn Prize', Journal of the history of biology, 57, pp. 1 - 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09767-7

Rasmussen N, 2024, 'Alfredo Morabia, The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19, Baltimore: Johns Hopkin University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781421446783, 232 pp.', Journal of the History of Biology, 57, pp. 343 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09779-3

Rasmussen N, 2024, 'Janina Wellman, Biological Motion: A History of Life, New York: Zone Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781942130819, pp. 336', Journal of the History of Biology, 57, pp. 497 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09790-8

Smocovitis VB; Rasmussen N, 2023, 'Everett Mendelsohn (1931-2023): Founding Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology', Journal of the history of biology, 56, pp. 579 - 582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09744-6

Smocovitis VB; Rasmussen N, 2023, 'Garland E. Allen (1936-2023), Historian of Life Science', Journal of the history of biology, 56, pp. 215 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09723-x

Rasmussen N; Betty Smocovitis V, 2023, 'Inaugural Editorial', Journal of the History of Biology, 56, pp. 1 - 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09713-z

Rasmussen N, 2022, 'David Herzberg. White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 400. Cloth $27.50', American Historical Review, 127, pp. 1982 - 1983, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac407

Rasmussen N, 2022, 'René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome', Journal of the History of Biology, 55, pp. 537 - 558, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-022-09692-7

Rasmussen N, 2022, 'The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution', SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 35, pp. 1048 - 1049, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaa120

Rasmussen N, 2021, 'Fighting Fat: Canada 1920–1980 by Wendy Mitchinson', Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 38, pp. 227 - 229, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cbmh.478-102020

Rasmussen N, 2021, 'Friends of the cactus', Metascience, 30, pp. 317 - 318, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00633-4

Lexchin J; Rasmussen N, 2020, 'The Rise and Fall of the Neurotic Housewife: Patient Sex in Psychotropic Drug Advertising to Physicians 1946–1990', International Journal of Health Services, 50, pp. 292 - 298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020731420912999

Rasmussen N; Proctor RN, 2019, 'From maverick to mole: John C. Burnham, Tobacco consultant', Isis, 110, pp. 779 - 783, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/706611

Rasmussen N, 2019, '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', Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 55, pp. 299 - 318, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21991

Rasmussen N, 2019, 'The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America', BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 93, pp. 286 - 288, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000474709000014&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Rasmussen N, 2018, 'Group Weight Loss and Multiple Screening: A Tale of Two Heart Disease Programs in Postwar American Public Health', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 92, pp. 474 - 505, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2018.0056

Rasmussen N, 2017, 'Controlling" America’s Opium": Barbiturate Abuse, Pharmaceutical Regulation, and the Politics of Public Health in the Early Postwar United States', Journal of Policy History, 29, pp. 543 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0898030617000264

Rasmussen N, 2017, 'Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century', The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 48, pp. 402 - 404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01172

Rasmussen N, 2016, 'The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race.', ISIS, 107, pp. 903 - 905, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/689785

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