Kim Pelis

Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary

Typhus and Tunisia

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781580464659
• ISBN-10: 1580464653
• Artikelnr.: 36878785

Autorenporträt

Kim Pelis

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude: The Substance of Shadows Introduction: The Door of the Sadiki
Staring at the Sea: Nicolle and the Pasteur Institute of Tunis The
Threshold of Civilization: Typhus in Tunisia Light & Shadow: Lousy War and
Fractured Peace Alliances: "Emperor of the Mediterranean"? Invisible
Forces: or, Action at a Distance Reservoir Docs: Birth, Life, and Death of
Infectious Disease Mosaics of Power: Confronting Paris At Home with My
Shadows: Patrie de Nomade