Nicolas Rasmussen

Nicolas "Nic" Rasmussen (Paris, França, nascido em Fevereiro de 1962) é um historiador das ciências da vida moderna e professor na Escola de Humanidades e Línguas da Universidade de New South Wales.

Com grande interesse na história das anfetaminas, na história do abuso de drogas e na história dos ensaios clínicos, ele tem diplomas superiores em história e filosofia da ciência, biologia do desenvolvimento e saúde pública.

Pesquisa

Sua pesquisa tratou do papel da instrumentação na formação do conhecimento científico; a história da biotecnologia, biologia molecular e sua história cultural e intelectual; a história do abuso de drogas e produtos farmacêuticos nos Estados Unidos desde 1900; e a influência do patrocínio da indústria na pesquisa biomédica.

Ele é mais conhecido por seu foco nas maneiras pelas quais os métodos experimentais e a tecnologia podem moldar as disciplinas de pesquisa, sociológica e intelectualmente, e no papel relacionado do patrocínio na formação de campos científicos nos EUA de meados do século XX. Foi investigador principal em várias bolsas da National Science Foundation (US) e do Australian Research Council.

Obra

Seu primeiro livro, Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940–1960 (1998), ganhou o Prêmio Paul Bunge em 1999 e o Prêmio do Livro do Fórum para a História da Ciência na América em 2000.

Seu segundo livro, On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine (2008), é uma história amplamente citada das anfetaminas na medicina e na cultura norte-americana.

Seu terceiro livro, Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise (2014), foi selecionado na "categoria de base da medicina" do Medical Book Awards da British Medical Association de 2015 e foi altamente elogiado pelo júri.

Publicações

Cohen, P. and Rasmussen, N. (2013), "A Nation of Kids on Speed: Six million children in the U.S. have already been diagnosed with ADHD. Plenty more will follow", The Wall Street Journal, (16 Jun. 2013).
Parr, J. and Rasmussen, N. (2012), "Making Addicts of the Fat: Obesity, Psychiatry and the ‘Fatties Anonymous’ Model of Self-Help Weight Loss in the Post-War United States", pp. 181–200 in Netherland, J. (ed.), Critical Perspectives on Addiction (Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, (Bingley), 2012. doi=10.1108/S1057-6290(2012)0000014012
Rasmussen, N. (1997), The Mid-Century Biophysics Bubble: Hiroshima and the Biological Revolution in America, Revisited", History of Science, Vol.35, No.3, (Set. 1997), pp.245–293.
Rasmussen, N. (1998), Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940–1960, Stanford University Press, (Stanford, CA), 1998. ISBN 0-80472-837-2
Rasmussen, N. (2001), "Plant Hormones in War and Peace: Science, Industry, and Government in the Development of Herbicides in 1940s America", Isis, Vol.92, No.2 (Jun. 2001), pp.291–316.
Rasmussen, N. (2002), "Steroids in Arms: Science, Government, Industry, and the Hormones of the Adrenal Cortex in the United States, 1930–1950", Medical History, Vol.46, No.3, (Jul. 2002), pp.299–234.
Rasmussen, N. (2004), "The Moral Economy of the Drug Company-Medical Scientist Collaboration in Interwar America", Social Studies of Science, Vol.34, No.2, (April 2004), pp. 161–185. doi=10.1177/0306312704042623
Rasmussen, N. (2005), "The Drug Industry and Clinical Research in Interwar America: Three Types of Physician Collaborator", Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol.79, No.1, (2005), pp. 50–80.
Rasmussen, N. (2006), "Making The First Anti-Depressant: Amphetamine In American Medicine, 1929—1950: A Quantitative and Qualitative Retrospective With Implications for the Present", Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol.61, No.3, (July 2006), pp.288–323.
Rasmussen, N. (2008), On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine, New York University Press, (New York, NY), 2008. ISBN 0-81477-601-9
Rasmussen, N. (2008), "America's First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971: A Quantitative and Qualitative Retrospective with Implications for the Present", American Journal of Public Health, Vol.98, No.6, (June 2008), pp.974–985.
Rasmussen, N. (2011), "Medical Science and the Military: The Allies' use of Amphetamine during World War II", Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol.42, No.2, (Autumn 2011), pp. 205–233. doi=10.1162/JINH_a_00212
Rasmussen, N. (2102), "Weight Stigma, Addiction, Science, and the Medication of Fatness in Mid-Twentieth Century America", Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.34, No.6, (July 2012), pp. 880–895. doi=10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01444.x
Rasmussen, N. (2013), "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 and Medicine, Vol.56, No.2, (Spring 2013), pp. 198–222 doi=10.1353/pbm.2013.0016
Rasmussen, N. (2013), "Looking back on the chequered past of drug trials", The Conversation, (7 Out. 2013).
Rasmussen, N. (2014), Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 2014. ISBN 1-42141-340-X
Rasmussen, N. (2015), "Stigma and the Addiction Paradigm for Obesity: Lessons from 1950s America", Addiction, Vol.110, No.2, (February 2015), pp. 217–225. doi=10.1111/add.12774
Rasmussen, N. (2015), "Amphetamine-Type Stimulants: The Early History of Their Medical and Non-Medical Uses", International Review of Neurobiology, Vol.120, (2015), pp. 9–25. doi=10.1016/bs.irn.2015.02.001
Rasmussen, N., Lee, K., and Bero, L. (2009), "Association of Trial Registration with the Results and Conclusions of Published Trials of New Oncology Drugs", Trials, (16 Dez. 2009).

Referências

↑ «Arts, Design & Architecture - UNSW Sydney». UNSW Sites (em inglês). Consultado em 24 de setembro de 2022
↑ Whilst Rasmussen's approach is sometimes identified with historical materialism, in his works, Rasmussen stresses that its basis is in the pragmatism of John Dewey.
↑ See Reeds, K., Forum for the History of Science in America Prize, (10 April 2001) Arquivado em 5 março 2016 no Wayback Machine; the Forum for the History of Science in America, founded in 1986, was formally acknowledged as an "Interest Group" of the History of Science Society in 1988 (see "About the FHSA", AmericanScience.)
↑ For example, Zaitichik, A., "The Speed of Hypocrisy: How America Got Hooked on Legal Meth", Motherboard, (30 June 2014).: "Anyone seeking to understand the treachery behind today's medical-industrial ADHD complex should begin with Nicolas Rasmussen's essential history, On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine. Rasmussen, a science historian at the University of South Wales, tells a story that ought to inform every media treatment of the subject, but never does."
↑ British Medical Association 2015 Book Awards: List of Medical Book Award Winners by Category (3 September 2015). Arquivado em 7 junho 2015 no Wayback Machine

[1] «Arts, Design & Architecture - UNSW Sydney». UNSW Sites (em inglês). Consultado em 24 de setembro de 2022

[2] Whilst Rasmussen's approach is sometimes identified with historical materialism, in his works, Rasmussen stresses that its basis is in the pragmatism of John Dewey.

[3] See Reeds, K., Forum for the History of Science in America Prize, (10 April 2001) Arquivado em 5 março 2016 no Wayback Machine; the Forum for the History of Science in America, founded in 1986, was formally acknowledged as an "Interest Group" of the History of Science Society in 1988 (see "About the FHSA", AmericanScience.)

[4] For example, Zaitichik, A., "The Speed of Hypocrisy: How America Got Hooked on Legal Meth", Motherboard, (30 June 2014).: "Anyone seeking to understand the treachery behind today's medical-industrial ADHD complex should begin with Nicolas Rasmussen's essential history, On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine. Rasmussen, a science historian at the University of South Wales, tells a story that ought to inform every media treatment of the subject, but never does."

[5] British Medical Association 2015 Book Awards: List of Medical Book Award Winners by Category (3 September 2015). Arquivado em 7 junho 2015 no Wayback Machine