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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1995]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Background and Context
- From Crystals to Life
- Vaccines, Ethics, and Scientific vs. Medical Mentalities: Anthrax and Rabies
- The Pastorian Myth.
- 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.