Building A Better Mouse

Building a Better Mouse

Building a Better Mouse Trap

With this book, readers learn to control the mouse and mouse driver for better performance, and explore Windows programming for the mouse. The book is loaded with programming examples and includes a complete function reference to all 50 documented mouse functions. The accompanying disk is filled with sample code, a new Sprite driver to duplicate the mouse cursor, code for defining Windows cursor shapes in DOS applications, and more.

Making Mice

Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. Karen Rader introduces us to mouse "fanciers" who bred mice for different characteristics, to scientific entrepreneurs like geneticist C. C. Little, and to the emerging structures of modern biomedical research centered around the National Institutes of Health. Throughout Making Mice, Rader explains how the story of mouse research illuminates our understanding of key issues in the history of science such as the role of model organisms in furthering scientific thought. Ultimately, genetically standardized mice became icons of standardization in biomedicine by successfully negotiating the tension between the natural and the man-made in experimental practice. This book will become a landmark work for its understanding of the cultural and institutional origins of modern biomedical research. It will appeal not only to historians of science but also to biologists and medical researchers.