White coats and no trousers
Narrating the experiences of women technicians in medical laboratories, 1930–90
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20315582 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J M HARTLEY (Queen Mary University of London), Julie Hartley (0000-0002-6873-2748, Google (United States), corresponding author), E M Tansey (Queen Mary University of London), Tansey Em (0000-0002-0742-5074, Google (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-36 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178 |
| Publisher | The Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsnr.2014.0058 |
| PMID | 26489181 |
| OpenAlex | W2159085680 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 2 |
Laboratory technicians are a vital part of any working lab. Not only is their knowledge and expertise important for the success of research, but they also often maintain the lab's intellectual and social life. Despite the importance of their work, they are rarely acknowledged in publications, and leave only a few traces within the historical record—the voices of women laboratory technicians are even harder to uncover. This paper attempts to correct this imbalance by presenting the narratives of women who worked as laboratory technicians at places such as the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), the Wellcome Research Laboratories, and established hospital and university labs in Cambridge, Oxford and London. The data were collected though narrative interviews. Specifically, the paper looks at the roles of these women within the lab, their experiences of the social and gender dynamics of the lab, and the development of expertise in regard to the work they carried out and the extent to which they received credit for their contributions to science
Engineering ethics · Medical education · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation) · Work (physics) · Engineering · History of Science and Natural History · Medical History and Innovations · Medicine
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |