Building Transnational Bodies

Norway and the International Development of Laboratory Animal Science, ca. 1956-1980

Bibliographic Data

ID4516334
AuthorsTone Druglitrø (0000-0001-5210-2488, University of Oslo), Robert G W Kirk (0000-0002-6541-5915, University of Manchester)
Year2014
Volume27
Issue2
Pages333-357
Publication date2014-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience in Context (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s026988971400009x
PMID24941794
OpenAlexW2157410119
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited34

ArgumentThis article adopts a historical perspective to examine the development of Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine, an auxiliary field which formed to facilitate the work of the biomedical sciences by systematically improving laboratory animal production, provision, and maintenance in the post Second World War period. We investigate how Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine co-developed at the local level (responding to national needs and concerns) yet was simultaneously transnational in orientation (responding to the scientific need that knowledge, practices, objects and animals circulate freely). Adapting the work of Tsing (2004), we argue that national differences provided the creative "friction" that helped drive the formation of Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine as a transnational endeavor. Our analysis engages with the themes of this special issue by focusing on the development of Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine in Norway, which both informed wider transnational developments and was formed by them. We show that Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine can only be properly understood from a spatial perspective; whilst it developed and was structured through national "centers," its orientation was transnational necessitating international networks through which knowledge, practice, technologies, and animals circulated

Argument (complex analysis · Engineering ethics · Medical laboratory · Pathology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Medicine · Race, Genetics, and Society · Mechanical Engineering

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