Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary

Typhus and Tunisia
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-58046-465-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 418 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

Reihe: Rochester Studies in Medical History

Kim Pelis uses a wide range of French and Tunisian archival materials and a close reading of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle's scientific papers and philosophical treatises to explore the relationship of scienceand medicine to society and culture in the first third of the twentieth century.

This book examines the biomedical research of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle during his tenure as director of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis. Using typhus as its lens, it demonstrates how the complexities of early twentieth century bacteriology, French imperial ideology, the "Pastorian mission," and conditions in colonial Tunisia blended to inform the triumphs and disappointments of Nicolle's fascinating career. It illuminates how thesediverse elements shaped Nicolle's personal identity, the identity of his institute, and his innovative conception of the "birth, life, and death" -- or, the emergence and eradication -- of infectious disease.
Kim Pelis blends exhaustive archival research with a close reading of Nicolle's written work -- scientific papers, philosophical treatises, and literary contributions -- to explore the complex relations between biomedical ideas and socioculturalcontext. The result is a study that will be of interest not only to students of French history, colonial medicine, and the history of the biomedical sciences but also to anyone seeking to understand how individuals have attemptedto deal creatively with complex times and ambiguous knowledge.

Kim Pelis, a medical historian by training, is a writer for the director of the National Institutes of Health.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pelis, Kim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prelude: The Substance of Shadows
Introduction: The Door of the Sadiki
Staring at the Sea: Nicolle and the Pasteur Institute of Tunis
The Threshold of Civilization: Typhus in Tunisia
Light & Shadow: Lousy War and Fractured Peace
Alliances: "Emperor of the Mediterranean"?
Invisible Forces: or, Action at a Distance
Reservoir Docs: Birth, Life, and Death of Infectious Disease
Mosaics of Power: Confronting Paris
At Home with My Shadows: Patrie de Nomade

Über Autor(innen)

Kim Pelis received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Wellcome Institute. She has taught at the University of Iowa, the Uniformed Services University, and the University of Notre Dame.