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- catalog abstract "Describes Pasteur's roles in improving health practices in France and identifies the other forces that helped implement his ideas about health care. What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? Although every town in France has a street named for Pasteur, was he alone able to stop people from spitting, persuade them to dig drains, influence them to undergo vaccination? Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession (both military physicians and private practitioners), and colonial interests. It is the operation of these forces, in combination with the talent of Pasteur, that Bruno Latour sets before us as a prime example of science in action. Latour argues that the triumph of the biologist and his methodology must be understood within the particular historical convergence of competing social forces and conflicting interests. Yet Pasteur was not the only scientist working on the relationships of microbes and disease. How was he able to galvanize the other forces to support his own research? Latour shows Pasteur's efforts to win over the French public - the farmers, industrialists, politicians, and much of the scientific establishment. Instead of reducing science to a given social environment, Latour tries to show the simultaneous building of a society and its scientific facts. The first section of the book, which retells the story of Pasteur, is a vivid description of an approach to science whose theoretical implications go far beyond a particular case study. In the second part of the book, "Irreductions," Latour sets out his notion of the dynamics of conflict and interaction, of the "relation of forces." Latour's method of analysis cuts across and through the boundaries of the established disciplines of sociology, history, and the philosophy of science, to reveal how it is possible not to make the distinction between reason and force. Instead of leading to sociological reductionism, this method leads to an unexpected irreductionism.".
- catalog alternative "Microbes. English".
- catalog contributor b2208353.
- catalog coverage "France".
- catalog created "1988.".
- catalog date "1988".
- catalog date "1988.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1988.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 239-249.".
- catalog description "Describes Pasteur's roles in improving health practices in France and identifies the other forces that helped implement his ideas about health care.".
- catalog description "War and peace of microbes -- Irreductions.".
- catalog description "What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? Although every town in France has a street named for Pasteur, was he alone able to stop people from spitting, persuade them to dig drains, influence them to undergo vaccination? Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession (both military physicians and private practitioners), and colonial interests. It is the operation of these forces, in combination with the talent of Pasteur, that Bruno Latour sets before us as a prime example of science in action. Latour argues that the triumph of the biologist and his methodology must be understood within the particular historical convergence of competing social forces and conflicting interests. Yet Pasteur was not the only scientist working on the relationships of microbes and disease. How was he able to galvanize the other forces to support his own research? Latour shows Pasteur's efforts to win over the French public - the farmers, industrialists, politicians, and much of the scientific establishment. Instead of reducing science to a given social environment, Latour tries to show the simultaneous building of a society and its scientific facts. The first section of the book, which retells the story of Pasteur, is a vivid description of an approach to science whose theoretical implications go far beyond a particular case study. In the second part of the book, "Irreductions," Latour sets out his notion of the dynamics of conflict and interaction, of the "relation of forces." Latour's method of analysis cuts across and through the boundaries of the established disciplines of sociology, history, and the philosophy of science, to reveal how it is possible not to make the distinction between reason and force. Instead of leading to sociological reductionism, this method leads to an unexpected irreductionism.".
- catalog extent "273 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Pasteurization of France.".
- catalog identifier "0674657608 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Pasteurization of France.".
- catalog issued "1988".
- catalog issued "1988.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engfre".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Pasteurization of France.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "306/.45/0944 19".
- catalog subject "Microbiology France History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Microbiology France History.".
- catalog subject "Microbiology Social aspects France.".
- catalog subject "Microbiology history France.".
- catalog subject "Microbiology history".
- catalog subject "Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy France.".
- catalog subject "QR22.F8 L3813 1988".
- catalog subject "QW 11 GF7 L3 1988a".
- catalog subject "Science trends France.".
- catalog subject "Sociology France.".
- catalog subject "Sociology history".
- catalog tableOfContents "War and peace of microbes -- Irreductions.".
- catalog title "Microbes. English".
- catalog title "The pasteurization of France / Bruno Latour ; translated by Alan Sheridan and John Law.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".