Kim Pelis

Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary (eBook, PDF)

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.

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.
Kim Pelis blends exhaustive archival research with a close reading of Nicolle's written work -- scientific papers, philosophical treatises, and literary contributions -- to explore the complex relations between biomedical ideas and socioculturalcontext. The result is a study that will be of interest not only to students of French history, colonial medicine, and the history of the biomedical sciences but also to anyone seeking to understand how individuals have attemptedto deal creatively with complex times and ambiguous knowledge.

Kim Pelis, a medical historian by training, is a writer for the director of the National Institutes of Health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580466561
• Artikelnr.: 63930849

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