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 Historiographies of Science, Springer International Publishing, 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 , Wiley, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0005613.pub2

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, 'Biology's Day at the Races INTRODUCTION', in GENE JOCKEYS: LIFE SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF BIOTECH ENTERPRISE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, pp. 1 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000362435400001&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, 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

Journal articles

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 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, 2021, '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

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

Rasmussen N, 2015, 'Stigma and the addiction paradigm for obesity: Lessons from 1950s America', Addiction, 110, pp. 217 - 225, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.12774

Rasmussen N, 2015, 'Amphetamine-type stimulants: The early history of their medical and non-medical uses', Int Rev Neurobiol, 120, pp. 9 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.irn.2015.02.001

Rasmussen N; Keizers P, 2015, '"History Full Circle: ‘Novel’ Sympathomimetics in Supplements"', Drug Testing and Analysis, 8, pp. 283 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dta.1852

Rasmussen N, 2015, 'Amphetamine-Type Stimulants: The Early History of Their Medical and Nonmedical Uses', International Review of Neurobiology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.irn.2015.02.001

Rasmussen N, 2014, 'Psychostimulanzien steigern nicht die kognitive Leistung. Lehren aus der Geschichte.', WestEnd, 2014, pp. 69 - 80, http://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/veroeffentlichungen/westend/

Rasmussen N, 2012, 'Book notice', Metascience, 21, pp. 251 - 252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9588-3

Parr J; Rasmussen N, 2012, 'Making Addicts of the Fat: Obesity, Psychiatry and the ‘Fatties Anonymous’ Model of Self-Help Weight Loss in the Post-War United States', Advances in Medical Sociology, 14, pp. 181 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S1057-6290(2012)0000014012

Rasmussen N, 2012, 'Weight stigma, addiction, science, and the medication of fatness in mid-twentieth century America', Sociology of Health and Illness, 34, pp. 880 - 895, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01444.x

Rasmussen N, 2011, 'Medical Science and the Military: The Allies’ Use of Amphetamine during World War II', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 42, pp. 205 - 233

Rasmussen N, 2010, 'Maurice Seevers, the stimulants and the political economy of addiction in American biomedicine', Biosocieties: An interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Studies of Life Science, 5, pp. 105 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2009.7

Rasmussen N; Lee K; Bero LA, 2009, 'Association of trial registration with the results and conclusions of published trials of new oncology drugs', Trials, 10, pp. 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-10-116

Rasmussen N, 2008, 'America`s first amphetamine epidemic 1929-1971 - A quantitative and qualitative retrospective with implications for the present', American Journal of Public Health, 98, pp. 974 - 985

Rasmussen N, 2006, 'Lives of a blockbuster drug', Minerva, 44, pp. 229 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-006-0008-6

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