CONTENTS

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xvi

List of Figures

pp xvii-xviii

Biologics: An Introduction

pp 1-32

Part I - Producing Nature

1 - Standardization and Clinical Use: The Introduction of the Anti-Diphtheria Serum in Lyon

pp 33-46

2 - Biologics in the Colonies: Emile Perrot, Kola Nuts and the Industrial Reordering of Pharmacy

pp 47-64

3 - Standardizing the Experimental System: The Development of Corticosteroids and Their Impact on Cooperation, Property Rights and Industrial Procedures

pp 65-74

Part II - The Body Politics of Biologics

4 - Cultures of Subjectivity: Coca as a Biologic and the Co-construction of Deviant Subjects and Drug Efficacy, 1880–1900

pp 75-88

5 - Vital Regulators of Efficiency: The German Concept of Wirkstoffe, 1900–1950

pp 89-104

6 - The Detachability of Reproductive Cells: On Body Politics in Sperm and Egg Donation

pp 105-120

7 - Human Tissues and Organs: Standardization and ‘Commodification’ of the Human Body

pp 121-138

Part III - The Making of Contested Biologics

8 - The Science of Measuring Vitamins: Quality Control and Competition in the Dutch Vitamin Industry before the Second World War

pp 139-150

9 - The German Pharmaceutical Industry and the Standardization of Insulin before the Second World War

pp 151-172

10 - ‘There is a Frog in South America / Whose Venom is a Cure’: Poison Alkaloids and Drug Discovery

pp 173-192

Commentary: Biologics, Medicine and the Therapeutic Revolution: Towards Understanding the History of Twentieth-Century Medicine

pp 193-200

Notes

pp 201-250

Index

pp 251-260