Rachel Mason Dentinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3485467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Mason Dentinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel Mason |
| FAMILY NAME | Dentinger |
| SIGNATURE | DENTINGER R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8049-2783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Two books to trouble the biological – and disciplinary – boundaries that trouble us today
Many historians describe writing a monograph as a 'journey' or a 'voyage', but far fewer cop to that journey being 'guided solely by curiosity'.These are Janina Wellmann's words in the epilogue of Biological Motion (p.209).And though Whitney Barlow Robles makes no such direct admission, 'curiosity', in both its noun and verb forms, is the propulsive force behind Curious Species, in which her own curiosity is as palpable a force as that of the nat…
Nicole C. Nelson. Model Behavior
Nicole Nelson’s Model Behavior is an eminently readable ethnography, which historians of medicine and biology will find useful and illuminating. Focused on a set of animal behavior geneticists in the Department of Neuroscience at a university on the West Coast of the United States (pseudonymized as “Coast University”), Nelson traces their efforts to develop experimental mouse models for alcoholism, placing her analysis of their work within the co…
Introduction to “Working Across Species”
Comparison between different animal species is omnipresent in the history of science and medicine but rarely subject to focussed historical analysis. The articles in the "Working Across Species" topical collection address this deficit by looking directly at the practical and epistemic work of cross-species comparison. Drawn from papers presented at a Wellcome-Trust-funded workshop in 2016, these papers investigate various ways that comparison has…
Animal roles and traces in the history of medicine, c. 1880–1980
This paper argues for the need to create a more animal-centred history of medicine, in which animals are considered not simply as the backdrop for human history, but as medical subjects important in and of themselves. Drawing on the tools and approaches of animal and human–animal studies, it seeks to demonstrate, via four short historical vignettes, how investigations into the ways that animals shaped and were shaped by medicine enables us to rea…
Introduction to “Working Across Species”
Comparison between different animal species is omnipresent in the history of science and medicine but rarely subject to focussed historical analysis. The articles in the "Working Across Species" topical collection address this deficit by looking directly at the practical and epistemic work of cross-species comparison. Drawn from papers presented at a Wellcome-Trust-funded workshop in 2016, these papers investigate various ways that comparison has…
Animal roles and traces in the history of medicine, c. 1880–1980
This paper argues for the need to create a more animal-centred history of medicine, in which animals are considered not simply as the backdrop for human history, but as medical subjects important in and of themselves. Drawing on the tools and approaches of animal and human–animal studies, it seeks to demonstrate, via four short historical vignettes, how investigations into the ways that animals shaped and were shaped by medicine enables us to rea…
Animal roles and traces in the history of medicine, c. 1880–1980
This paper argues for the need to create a more animal-centred history of medicine, in which animals are considered not simply as the backdrop for human history, but as medical subjects important in and of themselves. Drawing on the tools and approaches of animal and human–animal studies, it seeks to demonstrate, via four short historical vignettes, how investigations into the ways that animals shaped and were shaped by medicine enables us to rea…
Introduction to “Working Across Species”
Comparison between different animal species is omnipresent in the history of science and medicine but rarely subject to focussed historical analysis. The articles in the "Working Across Species" topical collection address this deficit by looking directly at the practical and epistemic work of cross-species comparison. Drawn from papers presented at a Wellcome-Trust-funded workshop in 2016, these papers investigate various ways that comparison has…
Nicole C. Nelson. Model Behavior
Nicole Nelson’s Model Behavior is an eminently readable ethnography, which historians of medicine and biology will find useful and illuminating. Focused on a set of animal behavior geneticists in the Department of Neuroscience at a university on the West Coast of the United States (pseudonymized as “Coast University”), Nelson traces their efforts to develop experimental mouse models for alcoholism, placing her analysis of their work within the co…
Two books to trouble the biological – and disciplinary – boundaries that trouble us today
Many historians describe writing a monograph as a 'journey' or a 'voyage', but far fewer cop to that journey being 'guided solely by curiosity'.These are Janina Wellmann's words in the epilogue of Biological Motion (p.209).And though Whitney Barlow Robles makes no such direct admission, 'curiosity', in both its noun and verb forms, is the propulsive force behind Curious Species, in which her own curiosity is as palpable a force as that of the nat…
Epistemology (2 works) · Animal and Plant Science Education (1 work) · Animal species (1 work) · Animal testing and alternatives (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Cross disciplinary (1 work) · Data science (1 work) · Discipline (1 work) · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies (1 work)