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The pasteurization of France / Bruno Latour ; translated by Alan Sheridan and John Law.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Latour, Bruno.
- Standardized Title:
- Microbes. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895.
- Pasteur, Louis.
- Microbiology--France--History--19th century.
- Microbiology.
- Microbiology--Social aspects--France.
- Microbiology--Social aspects.
- History.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 273 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? Although every town in France has a street named for Pasteur, was he alone able to stop people from spitting, persuade them to dig drains, influence them to undergo vaccination? Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession, and colonial interests. It is the operation of these forces, in combination with the talent of Pasteur, that Bruno Latour sets before us as a prime example of science in action.
- Contents:
- War and peace of microbes
- Irreductions.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Microbes.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 239-249.
- ISBN:
- 0674657608
- OCLC:
- 17413333
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