Publisher's Synopsis
An investigation of the rise of a molecular culture in biomedicine, this text aims to show that biomedical practices and strategies centred on molecules were instrumental in the forging of new alliances between the biomedical laboratory, the clinic, industry, and funding organizations from the 1930s onwards.;The contributors present a set of case studies of practices, technologies and strategies aimed at the isolation, investigation, manipulation, production and uses of molecules including vitamins, hormones, blood products, antibiotics, and vaccines. These case studies examine how processes of molecularisation were set in motion in the interwar period, how they were used as a resource in the biomedical "mobilisation" of World War II, and how new alliances and strategies created as part of the war effort played a central role in the reorganization of biomedicine in the postwar period.
