Article ID: CBB000701047

Reflections on the Reproductive Sciences in Agriculture in the UK and US, ca. 1900--2000+ (2007)

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Clarke, Adele E. (Author)


Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 38
Pages: 316--339


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on agricultural and reproductive technologies
Language: English

This paper provides a brief comparative overview of the development of the reproductive sciences especially in agriculture in the UK and the US. It begins with the establishment by F. H. A. Marshall in 1910 of the boundaries that framed the reproductive sciences as distinct from genetics and embryology. It then examines how and where the reproductive sciences were taken up in agricultural research settings, focusing on the differential development of US and UK institutions. The reproductive sciences were also pursued in medical and biological settings, and I discuss how the intersections among all three allowed the circulation of both ideas and scientists' careers. Across the twentieth century, scientific leadership in the reproductive sciences alternated between the UK and US, and these patterns are elucidated. I conclude with thoughts on future research that might emphasize the elaboration of industrialization processes in agriculture and new capacities to transform both reproductive processes and their products---life itself---as biopower comes to be more ambitiously understood as extending across all species

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Authors & Contributors
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez
Michelle Millar Fisher
Jensen, Joan M.
Karl Bruno
Kirchhelle, Claas
Jenna Prescott, Heather
Concepts
Reproductive technologies
Reproductive medicine
Agriculture
Medicine
Fertilization, in vitro
Sterility; infertility
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Andes
Peru
South America
Netherlands
Institutions
Science Museum, London
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