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The author, Bruno Latour, describes Pasteur's roles in improving health practices in France and identifies the other forces that helped implement his ideas about health care [1, 2]. Latour argues that Pasteur's success depended upon a network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession (military physicians and private practitioners), and colonial interests [1]. These forces, in combination with Pasteur's talent, are presented as a prime example of science in action [1].
Latour shows Pasteur's efforts to win over the French public, including farmers, industrialists, politicians, and much of the scientific establishment [3]. Instead of reducing science to a given social environment, Latour aims to demonstrate the simultaneous construction of society and its scientific facts [3]. The passages do not detail specific evidence used by the author to support these claims beyond describing the factors Latour identifies as contributing to Pasteur's success.
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Title: The pasteurization of France by Bruno Latour Description: Describes Pasteur's roles in improving health practices in France and identifies the other forces that helped implement his ideas about health care. What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? Although every town in France has a street named for 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…
le: The Pasteurization of France by Bruno Latour Description: Describes Pasteur's roles in improving health practices in France and identifies the other forces that helped implement his ideas about health care. Categories: History Pages: 288 Snippet: Describes Pasteur's roles in improving health practices in France and identifies the other forces that helped implement his ideas about health care.
bes and disease. How was he able to galvanize the other forces to support his own research? Latour shows Pasteur's efforts to win over the French public - the farmers, industrialists, politicians, and much of the scientific establishment. Instead of reducing science to a given social environment, Latour tries to show the simultaneous building of a society and its scientific facts. The first section of the book, which retells the story of Pasteur, is a vivid description of an approach to science whose theoretical implications go far beyond a particular case study. In the second part of the…