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The Private Science of Louis Pasteur /
In The Private Science of Louis Pasteur, Gerald Geison has written a controversial biography that finally penetrates the secrecy that has surrounded much of this legendary scientist's laboratory work. Geison uses Pasteur's laboratory notebooks, made available only recently, and his publish...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
| Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
306 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Preface
- PART I. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
- Chapter One. Laboratory Notebooks and the Private Science of Louis Pasteur
- Chapter Two. Pasteur in Brief
- PART II. FROM CRYSTALS TO LIFE
- Chapter Three. The Emergence of a Scientist The Discovery of Optical Isomers in the Tartrates
- Chapter Four. From Crystals to Life Optical Activity, Fermentation, and Life
- Chapter Five. Creating Life in Nineteenth-Century France Science, Politics, and Religion in the Pasteur- Pouchet Debate over Spontaneous Generation
- PART III. VACCINES, ETHICS, AND SCIENTIFIC VS. MEDICAL MENTALITIES: ANTHRAX AND RABIES
- Chapter Six. The Secret of Pouilly-le-Fort Competition and Deception in the Race for the Anthrax Vaccine
- Chapter Seven. From Boyhood Encounter to "Private Patients" Pasteur and Rabies before the Vaccine
- Chapter Eight. Public Triumphs and Forgotten Critics The Debate over Pasteur's Early Use of Rabies Vaccines in Human Cases
- Chapter Nine. Private Doubts and Ethical Dilemmas Pasteur, Roux, and the Early Human Trials of Pasteur's Rabies Vaccine
- PART IV. THE PASTORIAN MYTH
- Chapter Ten. The Myth of Pasteur
- Appendixes
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Appendix E
- Appendix F
- Appendix Q
- Appendix H
- Appendix I
- Appendix J
- Appendix K
- Author's Note on Notes and Sources
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index