The Private Science of Louis Pasteur /

The Private Science of Louis Pasteur / / Gerald L. Geison.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Geison, Gerald L.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1995
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 306
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Physical Description:1 online resource (418 p.) :; 27 halftones 26 figs. 6 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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