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Auteur(s) : Velmet, Aro
Titre(s) : Pasteur's empire [Texte imprimé] : bacteriology and politics in France, its colonies, and the world / Aro Velmet
Publication : New York, NY : Oxford university press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-306 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 229-299. Index
Pasteur's Empire shows how the scientific prestige of the Pasteur Institute came to
depend on its colonial laboratories, and how, conversely, the institutes themselves
became central to colonial politics. This book argues that decisions as small as the
isolation of a particular yeast or the choice of a laboratory animal could have tremendous
consequences on the lives of Vietnamese and African subjects, who became the consumers
of new vaccines or industrially fermented intoxicants. Simultaneously, global forces,
such as the rise of international standards and American competitors pushed Pastorians
to their imperial laboratories, where they could conduct studies that researchers
in France considered too difficult or controversial. Chapters follow not just Alexandre
Yersin's studies of the plague, Charles Nicolle's public health work in Tunisia, and
Jean Laigret's work on yellow fever in Dakar, but also the activities of Vietnamese
doctors, African students and politicians, Syrian traders, and Chinese warlords. It
argues that a specifically Pastorian understanding of microbiology shaped French colonial
politics across the world, allowing French officials to promise hygienic modernity
while actually committing to little development. In bringing together global history,
imperial history, and science and technology studies, Pasteur's Empire deftly integrates
micro and macro analyses into one connected narrative that sheds critical light on
a key era in the history of medicine
Sujet(s) : Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895)
Colonies françaises -- 19e siècle
Institut Pasteur -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
616.920 09 (23e éd.) = Maladies bactériennes (médecine) - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0190072822. - ISBN 9780190072827 (rel.). - ISBN 9780190072858 (erroné) (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46528222c
Notice n° :
FRBNF46528222
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Table des matières : Introduction : technology and scale in colonial politics ; The invention of pastorization
; Pastorization and its discontents ; Monks and warriors, bureaucrats and businessmen
; The making of imperial tuberculosis BCG and technopolitics from Europe to empire
; The racial politics of microbes in colonial Dakar ; Africa in the global race for
a yellow fever vaccine ; Conclusion : pastorian origins of global health.
