Making mice: standardizing animals for American biomedical research, 1900-1955

Why mice?

Mice, medicine, and genetics: from pet rodents to research materials (1900-21)

Experiment and change: institutionalizing inbred mice (1922-30)

Mice for sale: commodifying research animals (1930-33)

A new deal for mice: biomedicine as big science (1933-40)

RxMouse: JAX mice in cancer research (1938-55)

Mouse genetics as public policy: radiation risk in Cold War America (1946-56)

Animals and the new biology: Oncomouse and beyond.