Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary : Typhus and Tunisia /

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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 twe...

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Autor principal: Pelis, Kim, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nicolle, Charles, > 1866-1936.
Nicolle, Charles, > 1866-1936
Institut Pasteur de Tunis.
Institut Pasteur de Tunis
Institut Pasteur de Tunis > History.
Typhus fever.
Bacteriologists.
Bacteriology.
MEDICAL > History.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Microbiology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Bacteriologie.
Typhus exanthematique > Tunisie > Histoire.
Bacteriologistes > France > Biographies.
Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne > history
Bacteriology > history
Bacteriology
Typhus fever > Tunisia > History.
Bacteriologists > France > Biography.
Tunisia.
France.
Tunisia
France
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude: the substance of shadows
  • Introduction: the door of the sadiki
  • Thesis: embracing missions
  • Staring at the sea: Nicolle and the Pasteur Institute of Tunis
  • The threshold of civilization: typhus in Tunisia
  • Rupture: things fall apart
  • Light & shadow: lousy war and fractured peace
  • Antithesis: mosaics of pieces
  • Alliances: "Emperor of the Mediterranean"?
  • Invisible forces: or, action at a distance
  • Synthesis: mosaics of power
  • Reservoir docs: birth, life, and death of infectious disease
  • Mosaics of power: confronting paris
  • Denouement
  • At home with my shadows: patrie de nomade.

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