The Pasteurization of France

by Bruno Latour

Book Overview

What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? Although every town in France has a street named for Louis 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674657616
• ISBN13: 9780674657618
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"