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Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary - Typhus and Tunisia (Paperback)
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Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary - Typhus and Tunisia (Paperback)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
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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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