Books
Praise for Forgotten Clones
“Goodbye, Dolly. In tracing the forgotten history of human cloning, Crowe leads us along the back roads of some of the most fertile provinces of modern biology: the search for the secret of life; the quest to conquer cancer; the perennial impulse to build a better human; the drive toward a more ethical science. Every chapter is a revelation and a delight.” - Nathaniel Comfort, author of The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine
“The idea of cloning animal life, a term borrowed from horticulture to mean vegetative propagation, burst into public conversations about science in the 1960s. In his fascinating history, Crowe deftly recounts the research on nuclear transplantation that led to this moment and the rise and fall of public interest in the bioethical implications of cloning animals, from frogs to humans.” - Erika Lorraine Milam, author of Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
“Retracing the transition of nuclear transplantation from research method to reproductive technology, Forgotten Clones tells a story central to the emergence of developmental biology as the thriving field we know today. Engaging and intelligent, it will be valued alike by scientists and historians of biology.” - Nicolas Rasmussen, author of Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise
Refereed Journal Articles
Michael Dietrich, Rachel Ankeny, Nathan Crowe, Sara Green, and Sabina Leonelli, "How to Choose your Research Organism," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, first available online December 26, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101227
Nathan Crowe, Michael R. Dietrich, Beverly S. Alomepe, Amelia F. Antrim, Bay Lauris ByrneSim, and Yi He, "Diversification of Developmental Biology," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 53, (October 2015): 1-15.
Nathan Crowe, "Cancer, Conflict, and the Development of Nuclear Transplantation Techniques," Journal of the History of Biology 47, no. 1 (February 2014): 63-105.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Michael Dietrich, Nathan Crowe, and Rachel Ankeny, "Why Study Sex by the Sea?: Marine Organisms and the Problem of Fertilization and Cell Cleavage," in From Beach to Bench: Why Marine Biological Studies? Edited by Karl Matlin, Jane Maienschein, and Rachel Ankeny. University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Nathan Crowe, "The Historiography of Biotechnology" in Michael Dietrich, Mark Borrello, and Oren Harman Springer (eds) Handbook of the Historiography of Biology. Springer 2018. 10k words https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74456-8_13-1
Nathan Crowe, "Biotechnology" in A Companion to the History of American Science. Edited by Georgina M. Montgomery and Mark A. Largent. Wiley-Blackwell 2015. 8k words.
Book reviews
Book Review: "Robin Wolfe Scheffler. A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, January 19, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrab046.
Book Review Essay: "The Engineering Ideal: Loeb’s Ghost or Something Else?" Historical Studies of the Natural Sciences (2020) 50 (5): 624-632. Essay review of Luis A. Campos, Radium and the Secret of Life (Chicago University Press, 2015), Helen Anne Curry, Evolution Made to Order (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Sophia Roosth, Synthetic (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Book Review: Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of the Biotech Enterprise by Nicolas Rasmussen (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), Journal of the History of Biology (Winter 2015)