By Emeritus Professor Nicolas Rasmussen

Journal articles

Rasmussen N, 2006, 'Making the first anti-depressant: Amphetamine in American medicine, 1929-1950', Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 61, pp. 288 - 323

Rasmussen N, 2005, 'The drug industry and clinical research in interwar America: Three types of physician collaborator', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79, pp. 50 - 80

Rasmussen N, 2004, 'The moral economy of the drug company-medical scientist collaboration in interwar America', Social Studies of Science, 34, pp. 161 - 185

Rasmussen N, 2003, 'The creation of psychopharmacology', SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, 33, pp. 453 - 458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03063127030333008

Rasmussen N, 2003, 'The life of a virus: Tobacco mosaic virus as an experimental model, 1930-1965.', BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 77, pp. 221 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2003.0032

Rasmussen N, 2002, 'Designs for life - Molecular biolog after world war', SCIENCE, 297, pp. 2000 - 2001, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1076048

Rasmussen N, 2002, 'Of `Small Men`, Big Science and Bigger Business: The Second World War and Biomedical Research in the United States', Minerva: A Review of Science Learning and Policy, 40, pp. 115 - 146

Rasmussen N, 2002, 'Steroids in Arms: Science, Government, Industry, and the Hormones of the Adrenal Cortex in the United States, 1930-1950', Medical History, 46, pp. 299 - 324

Rasmussen N, 2001, 'Evolving scientific epistemologies and the artifacts of empirical philosophy of science: a reply concerning mesosomes', Biology and Philosophy, 16, pp. 629 - 654

Rasmussen N, 2001, 'Plant hormones in war and peace:science, industry and government in the development of herbicides in 1940s America', Isis, pp. 291 - 316

Rasmussen N, 1999, 'Mapping the cell: Advent of the thin section and characterization of the ER', Nature Cell Biology, 1, pp. E99 - E101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/12100

Rasmussen N, 1999, 'Mapping the cell: advent of the thin section and characterization of the Endoplasmic Reticulum', Nature Cell Biology, 1, pp. E99 - E101

Rasmussen N, 1999, 'The forgotten promise of thiamin: Merck, Caltech biologists, and plant hormones in a 1930s biotechnology project', Journal of the History of Biology, pp. 245 - 261

Rasmussen N, 1999, 'What moves when technologies migrate? `Software` and hardware in the transfer of biological electron microscopy to postwar Australia', Technology and Culture, pp. 47 - 73

Rasmussen N, 1997, 'The mid-century biophysics bubble: Hiroshima and the biological revolution in America, revisited', HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 35, pp. 245 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/007327539703500301

Rasmussen N, 1997, 'The early history of the electron microscope - German - Qing,L', ISIS, 88, pp. 167 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/383677

Rasmussen N, 1997, '`The Midcentury Biophysics Bubble: Hiroshima and the Biological Revolution in America`', History of Science, pp. 245 - 293

Rasmussen N, 1996, 'Making a machine instrumental: RCA and the wartime origins of biological electron microscopy in America, 1940-1945', STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, 27, pp. 311 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(95)00042-9

Rasmussen N, 1996, 'Cell fractionation biochemistry and the origins of 'cell biology'', TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES, 21, pp. 319 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0968-0004(96)10041-4

Rasmussen N, 1995, 'Mitochondrial structure and the practice of cell biology in the 1950s', JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY, 28, pp. 381 - 429, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01059387

RASMUSSEN N; GREEN PB, 1993, 'ORGANOGENESIS IN FLOWERS OF THE HOMEOTIC GREEN PISTILLATE MUTANT OF TOMATO (LYCOPERSICON-ESCULENTUM)', AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, 80, pp. 805 - 813, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2445600

RASMUSSEN N, 1993, 'FACTS, ARTIFACTS, AND MESOSOMES - PRACTICING EPISTEMOLOGY WITH THE ELECTRON-MICROSCOPE', STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, 24, pp. 227 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(93)90047-N

RASMUSSEN N, 1993, 'FREUND ADJUVANT AND THE REALIZATION OF QUESTIONS IN POSTWAR IMMUNOLOGY', HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 23, pp. 337 - 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27757702

RASMUSSEN N, 1991, 'THE DECLINE OF RECAPITULATIONISM IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY BIOLOGY - DISCIPLINARY CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS ON THE BATTLEGROUND OF THEORY', JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY, 24, pp. 51 - 89, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1991FG31400003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

RASMUSSEN N, 1987, 'A NEW MODEL OF DEVELOPMENTAL CONSTRAINTS AS APPLIED TO THE DROSOPHILA SYSTEM', JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, 127, pp. 271 - 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5193(87)80107-8

ZETTER BR; RASMUSSEN N; BROWN L, 1985, 'METHODS IN LABORATORY INVESTIGATION - AN INVIVO ASSAY FOR CHEMOATTRACTANT ACTIVITY', LABORATORY INVESTIGATION, 53, pp. 362 - 368, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1985AQP6200013&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Preprints

Hemminki E; Lexchin J; Rasmussen N, Evolution of Physician-Industry Relationships in Producing Knowledge of Drug Therapy - Comparison of the United States and Finland, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2945820

Other

Rasmussen N, 2017, Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2017.1292428

Rasmussen N, 2015, Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jru039

Rasmussen N, 2014, Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America., ORGANIZATION AMER HISTORIANS, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau647

Rasmussen N, 2013, Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond, ORGANIZATION AMER HISTORIANS, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jat107

Rasmussen N, 2012, Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences, UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/670119

Rasmussen N, 2012, Hormones of Life: Endocrinology, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Dream of a Remedy for Sterility, 1930-1970, UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/666437

Rasmussen N, 2011, Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA., JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2011.0004

Rasmussen N, 2008, The medium is the message, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-008-9194-1

Rasmussen N, 2008, The Medium Is The Message, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-008-9194-1

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