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Pasteurization of France

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ISBN-10: 0674657616

ISBN-13: 9780674657618

Edition: 1988 (Reprint)

Authors: Bruno Latour, Alan Sheridan, John Law

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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 (both military physicians and private practitioners), 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. Latour argues that the triumph of the biologist and his methodology must be understood within…    
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Book details

List price: $45.50
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.078

Bruno Latour is Professor and Vice-President for Research at the Sciences Po, Paris.

Alan Sheridan's most recent book is Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth. He has also translated over 50 books, including works by Sartre, Lacan, and Foucault.

War and Peace of Microbes
Introduction: Materials and Methods
Strong Microbes and Weak Hygienists
You Will Be Pasteurs of Microbes
Medicine at Last
Transition
Irreductions
Introduction
From Weakness to Potency
Sociologics
Anthropologics
Irreduction of ""The Sciences""
Bibliography
Notes
Figures
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