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

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

Pelis, Kim

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ISBN10: 1580464653
ISBN13: 9781580464659
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Apr 15 2013
Pages: 418
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 twentieth century.

This book examines the biomedical research of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle during his tenure as director of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis. Using typhus as its lens, it demonstrates how the complexities of early twentieth century bacteriology, French imperial ideology, the Pastorian mission, and conditions in colonial Tunisia blended to inform the triumphs and disappointments of Nicolle's fascinating career. It illuminates how thesediverse elements shaped Nicolle's personal identity, the identity of his institute, and his innovative conception of the birth, life, and death -- or, the emergence and eradication -- of infectious disease.

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