Nicolas Rasmussen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 348700 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicolas Rasmussen |
| PRENOMES | Nicolas |
| SOBRENOME | Rasmussen |
| ASSINATURA | RASMUSSEN N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9498-0921 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Nano Scale [is] Magic Scale’
Nanotechnology is a scientific field where STS scholars have observed the influence of magical thinking. Here we contribute to that literature by describing a phenomenon in the field of drug delivery called the EPR (Enhanced Permeability and Retention) Effect. When the 'nano' boom of the 2000s brought intense interest from outside pharmacology, EPR spawned so many efforts and enterprises in nano-based drug delivery that it became the leading basi…
Dangerous Medicine
Journal Article Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis Get access Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis. By Sydney A Halpern. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. xvi, 288 pp. $30.00.) Nicolas Rasmussen Nicolas Rasmussen University of New South Wales, Sydney, Sydney, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
David Herzberg. White Market Drugs
David Herzberg’s White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America is an important book for casting a well-studied slice of history in a new light. The 1914 Harrison Act and the establishment of the narcotics enforcement regime it spawned have generated a large and impressive historiography. Thanks to scholars such as David Musto, David Courtwright, Caroline Acker, and Rufus King, we know how a confluence of racist xen…
Michel Morange, The Black Box of Biology
In this weighty but well-written tome, nearly double the size of the its 1994 predecessor A History of Molecular Biology, biologist-historian Michel Morange revises and extends his synthetic history into the present, post-genomic era. The new book falls into four sections, the first three of which correspond almost exactly in structure to the original book. The first two sections cover the origins and emergence of molecular biology from the 1930s…
The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy
Reviewed by: The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America by Matthew Oram Nicolas Rasmussen Matthew Oram. The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. xiv + 269 pp. Ill. $49.95 (978-1-4214-2620-4). The colorful history of the hallucinogen LSD has attracted the attention of numerous historians of medicine, professional and otherwise, giving rise to nearly as ma…
Downsizing obesity
In 1972 Body Mass Index, BMI was put forth by physiologist Ancel Keys in his analysis of Seven Countries Study heart disease epidemiological data as the best available measure of obesity. This work culminated more than 20 years of effort by Keys to discredit the accepted measure of obesity, weight relative to height, along with a major public health campaign in the United States to fight heart disease through weight control. Here, I retrace his c…
From Maverick to Mole
Previous articleNext article FreeSpecial Section: Second LookFrom Maverick to Mole: John C. Burnham, Tobacco ConsultantNicolas Rasmussen and Robert N. ProctorNicolas RasmussenUniversity of New South Wales Search for more articles by this author and Robert N. ProctorStanford University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRed…
Group Weight Loss and Multiple Screening
In the late 1940s, amid elevated concern about heart disease and new funding to fight it, multiple screening emerged alongside group psychotherapy for weight loss as two innovative responses of the American public health community. I describe the early trajectory and fate in the 1950s of both programs as shaped by the ongoing political controversy about national health insurance. Group weight loss became the main de facto American response to a p…
Controlling “America’s Opium”
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Therapeutic Revolutions
This book is a collection of chapters showcasing work in a new but flourishing area in the history of medicine, the history of pharmaceuticals in the twentieth century. All of the work, some of it reflecting new research but most of it reviewing each author’s older work, adheres closely to the theme of “therapeutic revolution” inspired by Rosenberg’s influential 1977 article.1 In that work, Rosenberg portrayed the nineteenth century as the moment…
Generic
At the beginning of the century, the drug industry was unregulated and invested little in science. “Ethical” drugs, that is drugs with defined ingredients that were marketed to physicians and pharmacists, were all old and unpatented commodities. Like digitalis, ipecac, and morphine, these were the few traditional herbs (and extracts thereof) that had passed scientific muster. Medicines, then, were generic; doctors and druggists regarded ipecac pr…
Banking on the Body
Journal Article Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America Get access Kara W. Swanson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 333 pp. $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 902–903, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau647 Published: 01 December 2014
Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Journal Article Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond Get access Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. By Jon Agar. (Cambridge: Polity, 2012. x, 614 pp. $35.00.) Nicolas Rasmussen Nicolas Rasmussen University of New South WalesSydney, Australia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 1, June 2013, Pages 253–254, https://doi.org/10.…
Weight stigma, addiction, science, and the medication of fatness in mid-twentieth century America
Obesity and overweight are today recognised as subject to harmful stigma. Through an analysis of discussions of obesity in major American newspapers, the medical literature, and pharmaceutical advertising in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, I document a significant shift in medical thinking about overweight and obesity based in psychiatry, and explore the relationship of that shift to changes in popular understandings of fatness after the Second World…
Medical Science and the Military
Although amphetamine was thoroughly tested by leading scientists for its effects in boosting or maintaining physical and mental performance in fatigued subjects, the results never provided solid grounds for approving the drug's use, and, in any case, came too late to be decisive. The grounds on which amphetamine was actually adopted by both British and American militaries had less to do with the science of fatigue than with the drug's mood-alteri…
Maurice Seevers, the stimulants and the political economy of addiction in American biomedicine
Happy Pills in America
Reviewed by: Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac Nicolas Rasmussen David Herzberg. Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. x + 279 pp. Ill. $45.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9030-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9030-7). Amid the current flurry of interest in the history of pharmaceuticals, minor tranquilizers hold a special fascination, possibly due to the present resonance of controversies surroun…
The Medium Is The Message
America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971
Using historical research that draws on new primary sources, I review the causes and course of the first, mainly iatrogenic amphetamine epidemic in the United States from the 1940s through the 1960s. Retrospective epidemiology indicates that the absolute prevalence of both nonmedical stimulant use and stimulant dependence or abuse have reached nearly the same levels today as at the epidemic’s peak around 1969. Further parallels between epidemics …
Nervous Soup
Lives of a Blockbuster Drug
Making the First Anti-Depressant
Journal Article Making the First Anti-Depressant: Amphetamine in American Medicine, 1929–1950 Get access Nicolas Rasmussen Nicolas Rasmussen *School of History and Philosophy of Science, LG 18 Morven Brown Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia; Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 61, Iss…
Why We Take Prozac
Friends of the cactus
Book notice
The Moral Economy of the Drug Company–Medical Scientist Collaboration in Interwar America
This paper explores the exchange relationships underlying collaborations between pharmaceutical companies and preclinical (laboratory-based) researchers, in universities and similar contexts, during the interwar period. It also examines the arguments advanced to justify such collaborations in particular contexts as a way of investigating the perceived costs and benefits, especially among the academic parties in these collaborations, and the way t…
Of `Small Men', Big Science and Bigger Business
Facts, artifacts, and mesosomes
Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Journal Article Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond Get access Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. By Jon Agar. (Cambridge: Polity, 2012. x, 614 pp. $35.00.) Nicolas Rasmussen Nicolas Rasmussen University of New South WalesSydney, Australia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 1, June 2013, Pages 253–254, https://doi.org/10.…
Weight stigma, addiction, science, and the medication of fatness in mid-twentieth century America
Obesity and overweight are today recognised as subject to harmful stigma. Through an analysis of discussions of obesity in major American newspapers, the medical literature, and pharmaceutical advertising in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, I document a significant shift in medical thinking about overweight and obesity based in psychiatry, and explore the relationship of that shift to changes in popular understandings of fatness after the Second World…
Making the First Anti-Depressant
Journal Article Making the First Anti-Depressant: Amphetamine in American Medicine, 1929–1950 Get access Nicolas Rasmussen Nicolas Rasmussen *School of History and Philosophy of Science, LG 18 Morven Brown Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia; Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 61, Iss…
America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971
Using historical research that draws on new primary sources, I review the causes and course of the first, mainly iatrogenic amphetamine epidemic in the United States from the 1940s through the 1960s. Retrospective epidemiology indicates that the absolute prevalence of both nonmedical stimulant use and stimulant dependence or abuse have reached nearly the same levels today as at the epidemic’s peak around 1969. Further parallels between epidemics …
Plant Hormones in War and Peace
This essay describes the emergence of "hormone" herbicides from academic plant physiology research in America in the late 1930s and 1940s, attending especially to the role of interactions between university scientists, industrial concerns, and government (particularly agricultural) agencies. The importance of an intellectual shift among the physiologists to viewing hormones as plant toxins rather than growth stimulators, spurred by wartime events…
The Mid-Century Biophysics Bubble
A travers le retentissement de la bombe atomique d'Hiroshima, le role des physiciens est demontre dans les fondements de la biologie moleculaire
Downsizing obesity
In 1972 Body Mass Index, BMI was put forth by physiologist Ancel Keys in his analysis of Seven Countries Study heart disease epidemiological data as the best available measure of obesity. This work culminated more than 20 years of effort by Keys to discredit the accepted measure of obesity, weight relative to height, along with a major public health campaign in the United States to fight heart disease through weight control. Here, I retrace his c…
Controlling “America’s Opium”
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What Moves When Technologies Migrate? "Software" and Hardware in the Transfer of Biological Electron Microscopy to Postwar Australia
What Moves When Technologies Migrate? “Software” and Hardware in the Transfer of Biological Electron Microscopy to Postwar Australia Nicolas Rasmussen (bio) In 1944 A. L. G. Rees, a twenty-eight-year-old research and development scientist at Philips Electrical in England, answered a summons from Australia’s central research agency to return to his homeland and establish a new laboratory there. His chemical physics laboratory in Melbourne would bo…
Making a machine instrumental
Facts, artifacts, and mesosomes
The Invisible World
Making a machine instrumental
A Miller’s Tale
The Mid-Century Biophysics Bubble
A travers le retentissement de la bombe atomique d'Hiroshima, le role des physiciens est demontre dans les fondements de la biologie moleculaire
Zur Fruhgeschichte des Elektronenmikroskops. Lin Qing
Down-to-Earth Science
Author's response
What Moves When Technologies Migrate? "Software" and Hardware in the Transfer of Biological Electron Microscopy to Postwar Australia
What Moves When Technologies Migrate? “Software” and Hardware in the Transfer of Biological Electron Microscopy to Postwar Australia Nicolas Rasmussen (bio) In 1944 A. L. G. Rees, a twenty-eight-year-old research and development scientist at Philips Electrical in England, answered a summons from Australia’s central research agency to return to his homeland and establish a new laboratory there. His chemical physics laboratory in Melbourne would bo…
Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness
Plant Hormones in War and Peace
This essay describes the emergence of "hormone" herbicides from academic plant physiology research in America in the late 1930s and 1940s, attending especially to the role of interactions between university scientists, industrial concerns, and government (particularly agricultural) agencies. The importance of an intellectual shift among the physiologists to viewing hormones as plant toxins rather than growth stimulators, spurred by wartime events…
Untangling the McClintock myths
Of `Small Men', Big Science and Bigger Business
Life Science
Joseph E. Spillane, Cocaine
The Life of a Virus
In this latest contribution to the growing literature on the material culture of experimental life science, Angela Creager traces the history of the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) as a subject of research through the 1960s. Partaking of both the institutional history and the intellectual biography genres, the book is focused on the work of Wendell Stanley, who achieved the first crystallization of a virus with TMV in 1935 while working at the Rockefe…
A Prescription for Psychiatry
In this book, David Healy, the noted critic of psychiatric drug treatments and author of the influential The Antidepressant Era (Healy, 1997), offers an historical account of the introduction and impact of drug therapies for mental illness from the 1950s to the present. Although many drugs and psychiatric conditions are discussed, the main foci are schizophrenia and the 'antipsychotics' (or 'neuroleptics') used to treat them, together with depres…
Politics by Science
Drugs
The Moral Economy of the Drug Company–Medical Scientist Collaboration in Interwar America
This paper explores the exchange relationships underlying collaborations between pharmaceutical companies and preclinical (laboratory-based) researchers, in universities and similar contexts, during the interwar period. It also examines the arguments advanced to justify such collaborations in particular contexts as a way of investigating the perceived costs and benefits, especially among the academic parties in these collaborations, and the way t…
Why We Take Prozac
The Drug Industry and Clinical Research in Interwar America
This essay describes collaborations between American pharmaceutical companies and clinical investigators, mainly in academic medical centers and other research institutions, during the interwar period. I argue that efforts on the part of early twentieth-century "scientific medicine" reformers to impose higher standards on the testing and promotion of pharmaceuticals led both to the intended disciplining of the drug industry and also, as a recipro…
Lives of a Blockbuster Drug
Making the First Anti-Depressant
Journal Article Making the First Anti-Depressant: Amphetamine in American Medicine, 1929–1950 Get access Nicolas Rasmussen Nicolas Rasmussen *School of History and Philosophy of Science, LG 18 Morven Brown Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia; Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 61, Iss…
Nervous Soup
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