Robin Wolfe Scheffler
Biographic Data
| ID | 975030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Wolfe Scheffler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin Wolfe |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheffler |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEFFLER R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cancer Problem
For all the sophistication and diversity of historical accounts of cancer, most accept that the disease is in some ways a fundamentally modern illness, a disease of civilization, and equally that the history of its cures is one of modern biomedical discoveries. While a handful of accounts have traced its history earlier in time, this assumption has been remarkably enduring. Indeed, many historical accounts assume that fear of cancer as an incurab…
Patent Politics
In April 2021, a group of protesters gathered outside of the biotechnology firm Moderna in Cambridge, Massachusetts, demanding the waiver of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine patents. This protest was
Brightening Biochemistry
In the 1920s, scientists at the University of Cambridge's Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry made major contributions to the emerging discipline of biochemistry while also devoting considerable time and energy to the production of a humor journal entitled Brighter Biochemistry. Although humor is frequently regarded as peripheral to the work of science, the journal provides an opportunity to understand how it contributes to the social infr…
Stephen E. Mawdsley. Selling Science
The history of polio is deeply interwoven with the history of biomedicine in the twentieth century, from establishing the threatened child as a figure of medical philanthropy to underwriting the expansion of early molecular biology to defining the needs of clinical trials and inspiring debates over the nature of rehabilitation and disability. Numerous books have chronicled this influence, but more often than not they have emphasized the emergence…
Postgenomics
Reviewed by: Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome ed. by Sarah Richardson, Hallam Stevens Robin Wolfe Scheffler Sarah Richardson and Hallam Stevens, eds. Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015.) ix + 294 pp. Ill. $25.95 (978-0-8223-5894-7). In the decade following the controversy surrounding the completion of the Human Genome Project, genomics realized neither the promis…
Following cancer viruses through the laboratory, clinic, and society
Managing the future
Biomedical Computing
Reviewed by: Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States by Joseph Adam November Robin Wolfe Scheffler (bio) Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States By Joseph Adam November. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi+344. $60. Given the centrality of computers and computing to the practice of contemporary biology and the prominence accorded to computers for the futures of biomedical research and hea…
Interests and instrument
Managing the future
Brightening Biochemistry
In the 1920s, scientists at the University of Cambridge's Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry made major contributions to the emerging discipline of biochemistry while also devoting considerable time and energy to the production of a humor journal entitled Brighter Biochemistry. Although humor is frequently regarded as peripheral to the work of science, the journal provides an opportunity to understand how it contributes to the social infr…
Interests and instrument
Interests and instrument
Biomedical Computing
Reviewed by: Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States by Joseph Adam November Robin Wolfe Scheffler (bio) Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States By Joseph Adam November. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi+344. $60. Given the centrality of computers and computing to the practice of contemporary biology and the prominence accorded to computers for the futures of biomedical research and hea…
Following cancer viruses through the laboratory, clinic, and society
Managing the future
Postgenomics
Reviewed by: Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome ed. by Sarah Richardson, Hallam Stevens Robin Wolfe Scheffler Sarah Richardson and Hallam Stevens, eds. Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015.) ix + 294 pp. Ill. $25.95 (978-0-8223-5894-7). In the decade following the controversy surrounding the completion of the Human Genome Project, genomics realized neither the promis…
Stephen E. Mawdsley. Selling Science
The history of polio is deeply interwoven with the history of biomedicine in the twentieth century, from establishing the threatened child as a figure of medical philanthropy to underwriting the expansion of early molecular biology to defining the needs of clinical trials and inspiring debates over the nature of rehabilitation and disability. Numerous books have chronicled this influence, but more often than not they have emphasized the emergence…
Brightening Biochemistry
In the 1920s, scientists at the University of Cambridge's Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry made major contributions to the emerging discipline of biochemistry while also devoting considerable time and energy to the production of a humor journal entitled Brighter Biochemistry. Although humor is frequently regarded as peripheral to the work of science, the journal provides an opportunity to understand how it contributes to the social infr…
Patent Politics
In April 2021, a group of protesters gathered outside of the biotechnology firm Moderna in Cambridge, Massachusetts, demanding the waiver of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine patents. This protest was
The Cancer Problem
For all the sophistication and diversity of historical accounts of cancer, most accept that the disease is in some ways a fundamentally modern illness, a disease of civilization, and equally that the history of its cures is one of modern biomedical discoveries. While a handful of accounts have traced its history earlier in time, this assumption has been remarkably enduring. Indeed, many historical accounts assume that fear of cancer as an incurab…
Political science (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (3 works) · Cancer (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History of Science and Medicine (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)