The private science of Louis Pasteur

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The private science of Louis Pasteur

Instantiates

• The private science of Louis Pasteur

Publication

• 1995
• Princeton N.J., Princeton University Press, 1995

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-366) and index

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Ch. 1. Laboratory Notebooks and the Private Science of Louis Pasteur -- Ch. 2. Pasteur in Brief -- Ch. 3. The Emergence of a Scientist: The Discovery of Optical Isomers in the Tartrates -- Ch. 4. From Crystals to Life: Optical Activity, Fermentation, and Life -- Ch. 5. Creating Life in Nineteenth-Century France: Science, Politics, and Religion in the Pasteur-Pouchet Debate over Spontaneous Generation -- Ch. 6. The Secret of Pouilly-le-Fort: Competition and Deception in the Race for the Anthrax Vaccine -- Ch. 7. From Boyhood Encounter to "Private Patients": Pasteur and Rabies before the Vaccine -- Ch. 8. Public Triumphs and Forgotten Critics: The Debate over Pasteur's Early Use of Rabies Vaccines in Human Cases -- Ch. 9. Private Doubts and Ethical Dilemmas: Pasteur, Roux, and the Early Human Trials of Pasteur's Rabies Vaccine -- Ch. 10. The Myth of Pasteur

Dimensions

25 cm

Extent

xiv, 378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates

Isbn

9780691034423

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations

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b1686012