By Emeritus Professor Nicolas Rasmussen

Journal articles

Rasmussen N; Kuch D, 2026, '‘Nano Scale [is] Magic Scale’: On EPR, Unicorns, and Enchantment in Nanomedicine', Social Studies of Science, 56, pp. 573 - 595, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03063127261424493

Smocovitis VB; Rasmussen N, 2026, 'Editorial Introduction: Practice and the History of Biology', Journal of the History of Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-026-09867-6

Rasmussen N, 2026, 'Tim Harris: In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey through 50 Years of Biotechnology', Journal of the History of Biology, 59, pp. 137 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-026-09857-8

Smocovitis VB; Rasmussen N, 2025, 'Introducing "Notes and Sources"', Journal of the History of Biology, 58, pp. 317, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-025-09832-9

Rasmussen N, 2025, 'Situating Commemoration: An Editorial Introduction', Journal of the History of Biology, 58, pp. 5 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-025-09811-0

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 B; Rasmussen N, 2024, 'The 2024 Everett Mendelsohn Prize', Journal of the history of biology, 57, pp. 1 - 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09767-7

Rasmussen N, 2024, 'Alfredo Morabia, The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19, Baltimore: Johns Hopkin University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781421446783, 232 pp.', Journal of the History of Biology, 57, pp. 343 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09779-3

Rasmussen N, 2024, 'Janina Wellman, Biological Motion: A History of Life, New York: Zone Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781942130819, pp. 336', Journal of the History of Biology, 57, pp. 497 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09790-8

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, 2022, '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

Rasmussen N, 2021, 'Fighting Fat: Canada 1920–1980 by Wendy Mitchinson', Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 38, pp. 227 - 229, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cbmh.478-102020

Rasmussen N, 2021, 'Friends of the cactus', Metascience, 30, pp. 317 - 318, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00633-4

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, 2017, 'Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century', The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 48, pp. 402 - 404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01172

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', , 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

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