Pasteurization of France Latour Bruno
Pasteurization of France Latour Bruno What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene…
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Pasteurization of France Latour Bruno
What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? 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. 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?
Yet Pasteur was not the only scientist working on the relationships of microbes and disease. How 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.