Table 3.

Resources for the history of biology

Books
Cancer Biology and Immunotherapy. Bazell, R. (1998). HER-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer, New York: Random House. A biography of a molecule, tracing the history of its discovery
Cancer Biology. Weinberg, R. (1999). One Renegade Cell, New York: Basic Books. Exciting historical narrative of early theories and paradigm shifts in cancer biology.
Cell Biology. Rensberger, B. (1998). Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Cell. Oxford. Journalistic account of discoveries in cell biology originally published as front page series in the Washington Post.
Developmental Biology. Keller, E. F. (1995). Language and Science: Genetics, Embryology, and the Discourse of Gene Action. In: Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth Century Biology, New York: Columbia University Press. Brief monograph that describes the historical shift from embryology to genetics and the way that discipline-based metaphors have directed scientists' search for evidence.
Evolution. Young, R. M. (1985). Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture. http://human-nature.com/dm/dar.html (accessed 8 March 2008). Philosopher's critical synthesis of history, politics, and ideology, viewed through six inter-related essays written between 1968 and 1973.
History of Biology. Journal of History of Biology. Springer. www.springer.com/philosophy/philosophy+of+sciences/journal/10739 (accessed 8 March 2008). Pays particular attention to developments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; appropriate for the working biologist and the historian.
Microbiology and Immunology. De Kruif, P. and Gonzalez-Crussi, F. (2002). Microbe Hunters, Orlando, FL: Harcourt (originally published in 1926). Collection of 12 fictionalized historical accounts of microbiologists on the brink of discovery, including Leeuwenhoek, Pasteur, Koch, Ehrlich, Roux, and Metchnikoff; some inappropriate discriminatory remarks due to the time period, and instructors should forewarn students of these passages.
Molecular Biology. McCarty, M. (1986). The Transforming Principle: Discovering that Genes Are Made of DNA, New York: WW Norton. Firsthand account of the seminal experiments that led to the discovery of DNA as heredity material.
Stem Cell Biology. Maienschein, J. (2003). Whose View of Life. Embryos, Clones and Stem Cells, Harvard University. Historian's account of the history of cell biology, stem cell research, and legislation governing embryo research.

Websites and Video
Cell Biology. Sardet. C. (2007). Exploring the Living Cell, New York: GarlandScience and CNRS Images. DVD with early drawings and film tracing the history of cell biology research.
Cell Biology. Matveev, V. et al. The Discovery of the Cell. BioMedES. www.ifcbiol.org/Dotcweb/index.html (accessed 8 March 2008). Comprehensive history of cell biology and cell theory, collaboratively constructed with a strong focus on historiography. Color coding highlights, key moments in history, concepts important to the field, and areas of controversy.
Embryology. Arizona State University. The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. http://embryo.asu.edu/encyclopedia/search.php (accessed 8 March 2008). Collection of images, concepts, people, books, and critical essays pertaining to the field of embryology that display relationships as maps (see EP Topics).
Evolution. UC Berkeley. The History of Evolutionary Thought in Understanding Evolution. http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/history_01 (accessed 8 March 2008). Curriculum, timeline superimposed with four different disciplinary perspectives on the history of evolutionary concepts.
Evolution. PBS. (2001). Evolution for teachers. WGBH Foundation. www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/index.html (accessed 8 March 2008). Curriculum, short videos, links to historical texts designed to teach evolution.
Molecular Biology. Oral Histories: Program in the History of Biosciences and Biotechnology. Archive of California. http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=kt6q2nb1tg&brand=oac&doc.view=entire_text (accessed 8 March 2008). Oral histories full of personal details and insider information via interviews with the early pioneers of rDNA technology; includes Boyer, Kornberg, Berg, Cohen, and others, searchable by name or keyword.
Philosophy of Science. Pantaneto Forum. www.pantaneto.co.uk (accessed 8 March 2008). Collection of articles that promote debate on how scientists communicate, with particular emphasis on better philosophical understanding of science.