On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine (New York University Press, 2008)
Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960
(Stanford University Press, 1997)
SELECTED RESEARCH ARTICLES *
"Controlling
‘America’s Opium’: Barbiturate Abuse, Pharmaceutical Regulation, and
the Politics of Public Health in the Early Postwar US", Journal of Policy History 29: 543-568 (2017)
"Stigma and the Addiction Paradigm for Obesity: Lessons from 1950s America", Addiction 110: 217-225 (2015)
"On Slicing an Obvious Salami Thinly: Science, Patent Case Law, and the Fate of the Early Biotech Sector in the Making of Epo", Perspectives in Biology & Medicine 56: 198-222 (2013)
"Weight Stigma, Addiction Science, and the Medication of Fatness in mid-20th Century America", Sociology of Health and Illness 34: 880-95 (2012)
"On the Military Uses of Scientific Expertise: Amphetamine’s Adoption by the Allies in the Second World War", Journal of Interdisciplinary History 42(2): 205-233 (2011)
"Maurice Seevers, the Stimulants, and the Political Economy of Addiction in the United States", BioSocieties 5(1): 105-123 (2010)
"America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic, 1929-1971: A Quantitative and Qualitative Retrospective", American Journal of Public Health 98: 974-985 (2008)
“Making The First Anti-Depressant: Amphetamine In American Medicine, 1929-1950”, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 61: 288-323 (2006)
"The Commercial Drug Trial in Interwar America: Three Types of Clinician Collaborator", Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75: 50-80 (2005)
"The Moral Economy of the Drug Company-Medical Scientist Collaboration in Interwar America", Social Studies of Science 34: 161-186 (2004)
"Of 'Small Men', Big Science, and Bigger Business: The Second World War and Biomedical Research in America", Minerva 40 (2): 1-32 (2002)
"Steroids in Arms: Science, Government, Industry, and the Hormones of the Adrenal Cortex in the United States, 1930-1950", Medical History 46: 299-324 (2002)
"Evolving Scientific Epistemologies and the Artifacts of Empirical Philosophy of Science: A Reply Concerning Mesosomes”, Biology and Philosophy 16: 627-652 (2001)
"Plant Hormones in War and Peace: Science, Industry, and Government in the Development of Herbicides in 1940s America", Isis 92: 291-316 (2001)
"The Forgotten Promise of Thiamin: Merck, Caltech Biologists, and Plant Hormones in a 1930s Biotechnology Project", Journal of the History of Biology 32: 245-261 (1999)
"The Midcentury Biophysics Bubble: Hiroshima and the Biological Revolution in America, Revisited", History of Science 35: 245-293 (1997)
"Mitochondrial Structure and the Practice of Cell Biology in the 1950s", Journal of the History of Biology 28: 1-49 (1995)
"Fact, Artifacts, and Mesosomes: Practicing Epistemology with the Electron Microscope", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 24: 227-265 (1993)
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