By Emeritus Professor Nicolas Rasmussen

Journal articles

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', , 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, 2014, 'Science's true begetter?', New Scientist, 223, pp. 46 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(14)61817-0

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, 2007, 'Nervous Soup', Metascience, 16, pp. 165 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-006-9086-1

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

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, 2005, 'Why We Take Prozac', Metascience, 14, pp. 219 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-005-3298-7

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, 'Caroline Jean Acker, Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002', Metascience, 12, pp. 331 - 335, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:mesc.0000005855.11063.c8

Rasmussen N, 2003, 'Editorial', Metascience, 12, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1024412526416

Rasmussen N, 2003, 'Joseph E. Spillane, Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884–1920', Metascience, 12, pp. 125 - 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1024456308669

Rasmussen N, 2003, 'Life Science: The French Connection', Metascience, 12, pp. 205 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1024956521470

Rasmussen N, 2003, 'The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (review)', 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

Henry J; Neal K; Au S; O'Sullivan GM; Forge J; Robins R; Healy S; Rix M; Tabery J; Vann K; Windhorst C; Neal K; Neushul P; Clements G; Brigandt I; Rasmussen N; Travis AS; Ackert L; Knell S; Hooker C, 2002, 'Reviews', Metascience, 11, pp. 201 - 268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02914820

Chalmers A; Ackert L; Abir-Am P; Trochatos M; Miller CR; Rasmussen N; Macleod R; Brigandt I; Barrow L; Maclean I; Carlson EA; Cozzens SE; Klestinec C; O'Grady P; Bashford A; Endersby J; Simon J; Mercer D; Oldroyd D; Verderber S; Slezak P; Cooper R; Fara P; Palat RA; Anker P; Fritscher B; Branagan D, 2002, 'Reviews', Metascience, 11, pp. 329 - 429, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02917729

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

Beatty J; Rasmussen N; Roll-Hansen N, 2002, 'Untangling the McClintock myths', Metascience, 11, pp. 280 - 298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02917723

Forge J; Rasmussen N, 2001, 'Editorial', Metascience, 10, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02915142

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, 'Evolving Scientific Epistemologies and the Artifacts of Empirical Philosophy of Science: A Reply Concerning Mesosomes', Biology & Philosophy, 16, pp. 627 - 652, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1012038815107

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

Crozier ID; Hardy S; Rutledge D; Shanks N; Slater IJ; Lehoux D; Chalmers A; Lavine S; McDonough R; Redding P; Neal K; Stump DJ; Rasmussen N; Fan F-T; Oldroyd D; Davidson I; Andersen H; Betty Smocovitis V; Crozier I; Chakravartty A; College K; Laurent J; Tyrell I; Spath S; MacLeod R, 2001, 'Reviews', Metascience, 10, pp. 412 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02914831

Owen-Smith J; Gascoigne J; Chalmers A; Wolfe AJ; Crozier I; Crosthwaite J; Simon J; Anstey P; Clower W; Parascandola M; Campbell RL; Bigg C; Hankinson RJ; Rasmussen N; Nordlund C; Allen N; McConnell CS; Oldroyd D; Wisniewski E; Saul J; Kenen SH; Roy I; Monton B; Jackson DL, 2001, 'Reviews', Metascience, 10, pp. 232 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02914847

Turnbull D; Krips H; Dusek V; Fuller S; Sokal A; Bricmont J; Frost A; Chalmers A; Salleh A; Tauber AI; Luxford Y; Rupke N; French S; Brown PG; LaFollette H; Machamer P; Rasmussen N; Miller AJ; Schechtman M; West RS; Forge J; Oldroyd D; Demand N; Belousek DW; Schmaus W; Hong S; Chalmers A; Ankeny RA; Anstey P; Butterfield J; Gunawardena H, 2000, 'Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness: Avoiding intellectual impositions', Metascience, 9, pp. 347 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02913492

Zambe L; Page MJ, 2000, 'Review', Journal?, pp. 50 - 53

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, 'Author's response', Metascience, 8, pp. 260 - 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02913267

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

Bunting A; Robin L; Uniacke S; Rasmussen N; Holland G; Guillemin M; Catton P; Myhra S; Ankeny RA; Oldroyd D; Crozier I; Anstey P; Legg C; Garrett JE; Miller DP; Worrall J; Pickering A; Lacey H; Schweber SS, 1999, 'Reviews', Metascience, 8, pp. 125 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02910918

Gunawardena H; McDonough R; Hepburn L; Harré R; Alexander PF; Ankeny RA; Coopersmith J; Rasmussen N; Ruse M; Franklin J; Brown PG; Cox P; Oldroyd D; Rutledge D; Servos JW; Shanks N, 1999, 'Reviews', Metascience, 8, pp. 288 - 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02913270

Brooke JH; Dartnall T; Roberts C; Newcomb S; Champion R; Milne A; Kelly M; Varney W; Thomas O; Stillwell CR; Wilson LG; Anstey P; Garfield JL; Colyvan M; Cortiula M; Merson J; Rasmussen N; Vakas N; Forge J; Auyang SY; Scrine C; Rowold K, 1999, 'Reviews', Metascience, 8, pp. 444 - 514, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02910945

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

Sterelny K; Forge J; Crozier I; Myhra S; Albury R; Clarke S; Luxford Y; Miller DP; Nyhart LK; Chan M; McDonough R; Riggs PJ; Franklin A; Nola R; Bloor D; Cortiula M; Nickles T; Oldroyd D; Rasmussen N; Forge J; Sarjeant WAS, 1998, 'Reviews', Metascience, 7, pp. 331 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02912813

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

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