Geison The Private Science of Louis Pasteur

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6408-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 306, 418 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Geison, Gerald L.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables

Preface

Ch. 1 Laboratory Notebooks and the Private Science of Louis Pasteur 3

Ch. 2 Pasteur in Brief 22

Ch. 3 The Emergence of a Scientist: The Discovery of Optical Isomers in the Tartrates 53

Ch. 4 From Crystals to Life: Optical Activity, Fermentation, and Life 90

Ch. 5 Creating Life in Nineteenth-Century France: Science, Politics, and Religion in the Pasteur-Pouchet Debate over Spontaneous Generation 110

Ch. 6 The Secret of Pouilly-le-Fort: Competition and Deception in the Race for the Anthrax Vaccine 145

Ch. 7 From Boyhood Encounter to "Private Patients": Pasteur and Rabies before the Vaccine 177

Ch. 8 Public Triumphs and Forgotten Critics: The Debate over Pasteur's Early Use of Rabies Vaccines in Human Cases 206

Ch. 9 Private Doubts and Ethical Dilemmas: Pasteur, Roux, and the Early Human Trials of Pasteur's Rabies Vaccine 234

Ch. 10 The Myth of Pasteur 259

Appendixes 279

Author's Note on the Notes and Sources 305

Notes to the Chapters 309

Acknowledgments 343

Bibliography 345

Index 367