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The Private Science of Louis Pasteur
Gerald L. Geison
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations and Tables (page ix)
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Preface (page xiii)
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PART I. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
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Chapter One. Laboratory Notebooks and the Private Science of Louis Pasteur (page 3)
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Chapter Two. Pasteur in Brief (page 22)
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PART II. FROM CRYSTALS TO LIFE
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Chapter Three. The Emergence of a Scientist, The Discovery of Optical Isomers in the Tartrates (page 53)
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Chapter Four. From Crystals to Life, Optical Activity, Fermentation, and Life (page 90)
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Chapter Five. Creating Life in Nineteenth-Century France, Science, Politics, and Religion in the Pasteur-Pouchet Debate over Spontaneous Generation (page 110)
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PART III. VACCINES, ETHICS, AND SCIENTIFIC VS. MEDICAL MENTALITIES: ANTHRAX AND RABIES
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Chapter Six. The Secret of Pouilly-le-Fort, Competition and Deception in the Race for the Anthrax Vaccine (page 145)
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Chapter Seven. From Boyhood Encounter to "Private Patients," Pasteur and Rabies before the Vaccine (page 177)
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Chapter Eight. Public Triumphs and Forgotten Critics, The Debate over Pasteur's Early Use of Rabies, Vaccines in Human Cases (page 206)
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Chapter Nine. Private Doubts and Ethical Dilemmas, Pasteur, Roux, and the Early Human Trials of Pasteur's Rabies Vaccine (page 234)
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PART IV. THE PASTORIAN MYTH
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Chapter Ten. The Myth of Pasteur (page 259)
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Appendixes (page 279)
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Author's Note on the Notes and Sources (page 305)
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Notes to the Chapters (page 309)
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Acknowledgments (page 343)
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Bibliography (page 345)
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Index (page 367)
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Published: 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9781400864089 (ebook)
- 9780691034423 (hardcover)
- 9780691015521 (paper)