عنوان

The pasteurization of France /

(Number (ISBN

0674657608

(Number (ISBN

0674657616

(Number (ISBN

9780674657601

(Number (ISBN

9780674657618

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b702831

Title Proper

The pasteurization of France /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Bruno Latour ; translated by Alan Sheridan and John Law.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1988.

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273 pages ;

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24 cm

Text of Note

Translation of: Microbes.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index.

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Part One. War and Peace of Microbes -- Introduction. Materials and Methods -- 1. Strong Microbes and Weak Hygienists -- 2. You Will Be Pasteurs of Microbes! -- 3. Medicine at Last -- 4. Transition -- Part Two. Irreductions -- Introduction -- 1. From Weakness to Potency -- 2. Sociologics -- 3. Anthropologics -- 4. Irreduction of "The Sciences" -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Figures -- Index.

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Text of Note

Describes Pasteur's roles in improving health practices in France and identifies the other forces that helped implement his ideas about health care.

Text of Note

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 the particular historical convergence of competing social forces and conflicting interests. Yet Pasteur was not the only scientist working on the relationships of microbes and disease. How was he able to galvanize the other forces to support his own research? Latour shows Pasteur's efforts to win over the French public - the farmers, industrialists, politicians, and much of the scientific establishment. Instead of reducing science to a given social environment, Latour tries to show the simultaneous building of a society and its scientific facts. The first section of the book, which retells the story of Pasteur, is a vivid description of an approach to science whose theoretical implications go far beyond a particular case study. In the second part of the book, "Irreductions," Latour sets out his notion of the dynamics of conflict and interaction, of the "relation of forces." Latour's method of analysis cuts across and through the boundaries of the established disciplines of sociology, history, and the philosophy of science, to reveal how it is possible not to make the distinction between reason and force. Instead of leading to sociological reductionism, this method leads to an unexpected irreductionism.

Title

Pasteurization of France.

Title

Pasteurization of France.

General Material Designation

Microbes.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Pasteur, Louis,1822-1895.

Pasteur, Louis,1822-1895.

Pasteur, Louis,1822-1895.

Pasteur, Louis,1822-1895.

Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895

Pasteur, Louis,1822-1895.

Pasteur, Louis,1822-1895.

Pasteur, Louis.

Microbiology-- France-- History-- 19th century.

Microbiology-- Social aspects-- France.

Microbiology-- history.

Philosophy.

Science-- trends.

Sociology.

Microbiologie-- Aspect social-- France.

Microbiologie-- France-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

44.43 medical microbiology.

Microbiologie-- histoire-- France.

Microbiologie.

Microbiology-- Social aspects.

Microbiology.

Mikrobiologie

Pasteurisatie.

Ziektebestrijding.

France.

France.

Frankreich

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301:576.8

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576.8:301

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Latour, Bruno.

Date of Transaction

20201207182043.0

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[Book]

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