García-Sancho, Miguel (Author)
This paper addresses the 1996 cloning of Dolly the sheep, locating it within a long-standing tradition of animal breeding research in Edinburgh. Far from being an end in itself, the cell-nuclear transfer experiment from which Dolly was born should be seen as a step in an investigative pathway that sought the production of medically relevant transgenic animals. By historicising Dolly, I illustrate how the birth of this sheep captures a dramatic redefinition of the life sciences, when in the 1970s and 1980s the rise of neo-liberal governments and the emergence of the biotechnology market pushed research institutions to show tangible applications of their work. Through this broader interpretative framework, the Dolly story emerges as a case study of the deep transformations of agricultural experimentation during the last third of the twentieth century. The reorganisation of laboratory practice, human resources and institutional settings required by the production of transgenic animals had unanticipated consequences. One of these unanticipated effects was that the boundaries between animal and human health became blurred. As a result of this, new professional spaces emerged and the identity of Dolly the sheep was reconfigured, from an instrument for livestock improvement in the farm to a more universal symbol of the new cloning age.
...MoreArticle Parolini, Giuditta (2015) Charting the History of Agricultural Experiments. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (pp. 231-241).
Thesis
Matz, Brendan A.;
(2011)
Crafting Heredity: The Art and Science of Livestock Breeding in the United States and Germany, 1860--1914
(/isis/citation/CBB001567276/)
Article
Calvert, Scout;
(2013)
Certified Angus, Certified Patriot: Breeding, Bodies, and Pedigree Practices
(/isis/citation/CBB001320575/)
Article
Radick, Gregory;
(2013)
The Professor and the Pea: Lives and Afterlives of William Bateson's Campaign for the Utility of Mendelism
(/isis/citation/CBB001211905/)
Article
Theunissen, Bert;
(2012)
Breeding for Nobility or for Production? Cultures of Dairy Cattle Breeding in the Netherlands, 1945--1995
(/isis/citation/CBB001250836/)
Article
Tuunainen, Juha;
(2001)
Constructing Objects and Transforming Experimental Systems
(/isis/citation/CBB000101048/)
Book
Bert Theunissen;
(2020)
Beauty Or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000
(/isis/citation/CBB892989234/)
Article
Brandt, Christina;
(2010)
Zeitschichten des Klons. Anmerkungen zu einer Begriffsgeschichte
(/isis/citation/CBB001021197/)
Book
Franklin, Sarah;
(2013)
Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship
(/isis/citation/CBB001422164/)
Article
Miguel García-Sancho;
Dmitriy Myelnikov;
(2019)
Between mice and sheep: Biotechnology, agricultural science and animal models in late-twentieth century Edinburgh
(/isis/citation/CBB803418234/)
Article
Milne, Anne;
(2010)
Sentient Genetics: Breeding the Animal Breeder as Fundamental Other
(/isis/citation/CBB001032694/)
Article
Clare Button;
(2018)
James Cossar Ewart and the Origins of the Animal Breeding Research Department in Edinburgh, 1895–1920
(/isis/citation/CBB414991374/)
Chapter
Orel, Vítězslav;
(2002)
Animal Breeding and Disease Control in the Context of the Origin and the Development of Genetics, 1800--1950
(/isis/citation/CBB000773743/)
Article
Williams, R. B.;
(2014)
The Birth, Death and Resurrection of the “Geneticologists”
(/isis/citation/CBB001202226/)
Article
Theunissen, Bert;
(2008)
Breeding without Mendelism: Theory and Practice of Dairy Cattle Breeding in the Netherlands, 1900--1950
(/isis/citation/CBB000850681/)
Book
Franklin, Sarah;
(2007)
Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy
(/isis/citation/CBB000772371/)
Article
Grasseni, Cristina;
(2007)
Managing Cows: An Ethnography of Breeding Practices and Uses of Reproductive Technology in Contemporary Dairy Farming in Lombardy (Italy)
(/isis/citation/CBB000701057/)
Article
Pérez de la Vega, Marcelino;
(2016)
Contribución de las leguminosas a la investigación genética. Una perspectiva histórica desde la genética mendeliana a la secuenciación masiva
(/isis/citation/CBB201860345/)
Chapter
Grasseni, Cristina;
(2007)
Good Looking: Learning to Be a Cattle Breeder
(/isis/citation/CBB000953727/)
Article
Wolfe, Audra J.;
(2012)
The Cold War Context of the Golden Jubilee, Or, Why We Think of Mendel as the Father of Genetics
(/isis/citation/CBB001250825/)
Book
Sheila Jasanoff;
Sang-Hyun Kim;
(2015)
Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
(/isis/citation/CBB690565115/)
Be the first to comment!