Leaving the Academic Niche-Rhoda Erdmann (1870-1935) and the Democratization of Tissue Culture Research.

ABSTRACT: In the years after Ross Harrison published his pivotal paper on nerve fiber regeneration in 1907, researchers following his line of research presented tissue culture techniques as an extremely sensitive, difficult, and almost occult methodology. When Philip R. White published a manual on tissue culturing in 1954, he declared that he wanted to disenchant this formerly mystified field of study. With a similar aim Rhoda Erdmann had published a comparable manual more than 30 years before in 1922. Her intention was to offer a book that would make the method "a common property of those who want to do biological research in the future." When science was about to move from little science to big science, Erdmann tried to democratize tissue culture knowledge. Rhoda Erdmann was in many aspects an ext

SUBMITTER: Fangerau H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8882992 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature