Biologics, A History of Agents Made From Living Organisms in the Twentieth Century

Schwerin, Alexander von; Stoff, Heiko; Wahrig, Bettina

• Chapter 1 Biologics: An Introduction, Alexander von Schwerin, Heiko Stoff, Bettina Wahrig; Chapter 1a, Jonathan Simon; Chapter 2, Jean-Paul Gaudillière; Chapter 3 Standardizing the Experimental System: The Development of Corticosteriods and their Impact on Cooperation, Property Rights and Industrial Procedures, Lea Haller; Chapter 4, Beat Bächi; Chapter 5 Vital Regulators of Efficiency: The German Concept of Wirkstoffe, 1900-1950, Heiko Stoff; Chapter 6, Sven Bergmann; Chapter 7 Human Tissues and Organs: Standardization and 'Commodification' of the Human Body, Sophie Chauveau; Chapter 8 The Science of Measuring Vitamins: Quality Control and Competition in the Dutch Vitamin Industry Before the Second World War, Pim Huijnen; Chapter 9 The German Pharmaceutical Industry and the Standardization of Insulin before the Second World War, Ulrike Thoms; Chapter 10, Klaus Angerer; Chapter 12, Christoph Gradmann;

'the book is particularly interesting not just because of its insight into the history of its subject as seen from Germany, but also because it draws on German intellectual traditions of conceptual history ... Historians who did not know they were interested in biologics should take this book seriously.' Isis