By Emeritus Professor Nicolas Rasmussen

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

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

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, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000171658000003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

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, 32, pp. 245 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1004635500408

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

Back to profile page