Stadler, M (Author)
The subjects of this thesis are the fundamental, bioelectrical expressions of life from the interwar period into the 1950s. It is a history of models of the cellular life, and the things, materials and practices surrounding them. This living cell, modelled or not, indeed is largely absent from the narratives we tell of twentieth century biology. The big pictures we have revolve around even smaller entities: genes, molecules, and enzymes. But the cell was still there, this thesis shows. And its presence, this thesis argues, must affect the stories of life science we tell. The historical material covered here thus deliberately encompasses a range of fairly obscure forays into the nature of bio-electricity ⿿ from exercise physiology to colloid science to medical physics ⿿ as well as such well-known advances as the Hodgkin-Huxley model of the neuron. For, the central aim of this thesis is to show that not only was this living cell central to shaping biological science in the twentieth century, we can uncover it at very mundane and unexpected places. Science, this thesis shows, knew the elusive cell mainly through other and mundane things ⿿ as models. These models were assembled from a fabric that was not living, organic and natural, but fabricated, processed, made-up and hence, known, controlled and transparent: things ranging from soap-films to electrical circuits to calculation machines. It follows that this science of life was not in fact life science but something still broader which belongs to histories far beyond that of biological specialities, model-organisms, academic research and disciplines, or indeed, that of the progressive molecularization of life. Cellular life took shape ⿿ mediated via models ⿿ within broad-scale technological and scientific projects that coalesced around the macroscopic materialities that defined this modern, industrial age.
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