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Keeping the culture alive: the laboratory technician in mid-twentieth-century British medical research
This paper reports results from a detailed study of the careers of laboratory technicians in British medical research. Technicians and their contributions are very frequently missing from accounts of modern medicine, and this project is an attempt to correct that absence. The present paper focuses a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628576/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18548906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2007.0035 |
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description | This paper reports results from a detailed study of the careers of laboratory technicians in British medical research. Technicians and their contributions are very frequently missing from accounts of modern medicine, and this project is an attempt to correct that absence. The present paper focuses almost entirely on the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research in North London, from the first proposal of such a body in 1913 until the mid 1960s. The principal sources of information have been technical staff themselves, largely as recorded in an extensive series of oral history interviews. These have covered a wide range of issues and provide valuable perspectives about technicians' backgrounds and working lives. |
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spelling | pubmed-26285762009-01-19 Keeping the culture alive: the laboratory technician in mid-twentieth-century British medical research Tansey, E.M. Notes Rec R Soc Lond Research Article This paper reports results from a detailed study of the careers of laboratory technicians in British medical research. Technicians and their contributions are very frequently missing from accounts of modern medicine, and this project is an attempt to correct that absence. The present paper focuses almost entirely on the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research in North London, from the first proposal of such a body in 1913 until the mid 1960s. The principal sources of information have been technical staff themselves, largely as recorded in an extensive series of oral history interviews. These have covered a wide range of issues and provide valuable perspectives about technicians' backgrounds and working lives. The Royal Society 2008-01-09 2008-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2628576/ /pubmed/18548906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2007.0035 Text en Copyright © 2008 The Royal Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tansey, E.M. Keeping the culture alive: the laboratory technician in mid-twentieth-century British medical research |
title | Keeping the culture alive: the laboratory technician in mid-twentieth-century British medical research |
title_full | Keeping the culture alive: the laboratory technician in mid-twentieth-century British medical research |
title_fullStr | Keeping the culture alive: the laboratory technician in mid-twentieth-century British medical research |
title_full_unstemmed | Keeping the culture alive: the laboratory technician in mid-twentieth-century British medical research |
title_short | Keeping the culture alive: the laboratory technician in mid-twentieth-century British medical research |
title_sort | keeping the culture alive: the laboratory technician in mid-twentieth-century british medical research |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628576/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18548906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2007.0035 |
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