| Description |
xiv, 378 p. : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 25 cm. |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
Published by Princeton University Press. |
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This book has been composed in Berkeley with Benguiat Display. |
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Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. |
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Printed in the United States of America. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Background and Context -- From Crystals to Life -- Vaccines, Ethics, and Scientific vs. Medical Mentalities: Anthrax and Rabies -- The Pastorian Myth. |
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Laboratory Notebooks and the Private Science of Louis Pasteur -- Pasteur in Brief -- The Emergence of a Scientist The Discovery of Optical Isomers in the Tartrates -- From Crystals to Life Optical Activity, Fermentation, and Life -- Creating Life in Nineteenth-Century France Science, Politics, and Religion in the Pasteur-Pouchet Debate over Spontaneous Generation -- The Secret of Pouilly-le-Fort Competition and Deception in the Race for the Anthrax Vaccine -- From Boyhood Encounter to "Private Patients" Pasteur and Rabies before the Vaccine -- Public Triumphs and Forgotten Critics The Debate over Pasteur's Early Use of Rabies Vaccines in Human Cases -- Private Doubts and Ethical Dilemmas Pasteur, Roux, and the Early Human Trials of Pasteur's Rabies Vaccine -- The Myth of Pasteur. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Subject |
Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895.
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Scientists -- France -- Biography.
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Medicine.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0691034427 |
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9780691034423 |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb05758 hdl |
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