By Emeritus Professor Nicolas Rasmussen

Journal articles

Oldroyd D; Dowe P; Mackenzie A; Bashford A; Bowker GC; Chalmers A; Crozier IJ; Dargavel J; Riemens W; Dowling A; Forrest P; Frankel D; Garfield J; Godfrey H; Grout A; Hart P; Hooker CA; Luxford Y; Maelzer B; Martin B; Rasmussen N; Reingold N; Robin L; Shortland M; Sprod T; Sutton J; Sysak J, 1997, 'A Miller’s Tale', Metascience, 6, pp. 105 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03019469

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, 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, 1996, 'Lynn K. Nyhart, Biology Takes Form: Animal Morphology and the German Universities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 414. ISBN 0-226-61086-1, £59.95, $75.00 (hardback); 0-226-61088-8, £21.95, $27.50(paperback).', The British Journal for the History of Science, 29, pp. 373 - 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400034610

Rasmussen N, 1996, 'M. Norton Wise (ed.), The Values of Precision. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp viii + 372. ISBN 0-691-03759-0. £35.00, $49.50.', The British Journal for the History of Science, 29, pp. 120 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400034130

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 Part A, 27, pp. 311 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(95)00042-9

Corones A; Dowling D; Bonnell AG; Lachapelle J; Oldroyd D; Spary E; Oldroyd B; Campbell K; Bhathal R; Dowe P; Harbus A; Legg C; Martin B; Luxford Y; Rasmussen N; Redding P; Sprod T; Sypel R, 1996, 'Reviews', Metascience, 5, pp. 167 - 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02988882

Crozier I; Fara P; Hodge J; Kitts B; Knight R; Myhra S; Oldroyd D; Wilson EA; Robins R; Dovers S; Forge J; Gunawardena H; Tannoch-Bland J; Leydesdorff L; Oldroyd D; Oldroyd D; Oldroyd D; Rasmussen N; Restall G; Selin H; Shortland M; Sleinis EE; Solomon F; McQuire S; Crosland M; Farrier D; Haynes R; Myhra S; Russell C; Robin L; Garrety K; Gaukroger S; Ames S; Varney W; Bozickovic V; Dowe P, 1996, 'Reviews', Metascience, 5, pp. 71 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02988889

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, '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, 1993, 'Facts, artifacts, and mesosomes: Practicing epistemology with the electron microscope', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 24, pp. 227 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(93)90047-n

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, 'An in vivo assay for chemoattractant activity.', Laboratory Investigation, 53, pp. 362 - 368

RASMUSSEN N, '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

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, Christer Nordlund. Hormones of Life: Endocrinology, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Dream of a Remedy for Sterility, 1930–1970 . x + 297 pp., illus., bibl., index. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2011. $34.95 (paper)., University of Chicago Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/666437

Rasmussen N, 2011, Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA (review), Johns Hopkins University 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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