Louis Pasteur, free lance of science
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Louis Pasteur, free lance of science
（The Da Capo series in science）（A Da Capo paperback）
Da Capo Press, [1986], c1960
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Scribner, 1960
Bibliography: p. [409]-412
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the words of one of his English contemporaries, Louis Pasteur was "the most perfect man who ever entered the kingdom of science." His contributions to the development of microbiology and medicine were profound, both practically (Pasteurization and vaccination) and theoretically (the germ model of disease). He spoke out forcefully on issues of the day, especially when they concerned public health, and his research included studies on rabies, anaerobic life, childbirth fever, silkworms, and beer. Rene Dubos's outstanding biography examines Pasteur's manifold genius in the context of the era,Pasteur was an exemplary nineteenth-century bourgeois,and in light of recent environmental thought. His view of Pasteur as ecologist, the first to formulate in concrete terms a biological and chemical theory of global ecosystems, is only one of the many surprising insights into a man whose emblematic fame has obscured a complex and rich life.
Table of Contents
* Introduction: The Complexities of Genius * The Wonderful Century * The Legend of Pasteur * Pasteur in Action * From Crystals to Life * Spontaneous Generation and the Role of Germs in the Economy of Nature * The Biochemical Unity of Life * The Diseases of Silkworms * The Germ Theory of Disease * Mechanisms of Contagion and Disease * Medicine, Public Health and the Germ Theory * Immunity and Vaccination * Mechanisms of Discoveries
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