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8This book is a philosophical analysis of the development and production of the anti-diphtheria serum in France from 1894 to 1900. Jonathan Simon's unique approach considers serum, a medicinal drug, as a technological object and analyzes its insertion into the therapeutic environment of diphtheria.
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32Aux origines de la chimie organique: Méthodes et pratiques des pharmaciens et des chimistes (1785-1835)Annals of Science 70 (4): 1-3. 2013.No abstract
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1Rise of the Carceral StateSocial Research: An International Quarterly 74 471-508. 2007.No piece of the present conjuncture is more alarming than the explosive growth of the American prison population since the late 1970s. The prison has been a critical element of American government since the early 19th century, but the mentalities of rule and the technologies of power linked to the prison, have changed several times during that history. Building more prison cells, therefore, does not have the same constancy of meaning that building more tanks or more strategic bombers does. While…Read more
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23Analysis and the hierarchy of nature in eighteenth-century chemistryBritish Journal for the History of Science 35 (1): 1-16. 2002.What was the impact of Lavoisier's new elementary chemical analysis on the conception and practice of chemistry in the vegetable kingdom at the end of the eighteenth century? I examine how this elementary analysis relates both to more traditional plant analysis and to philosophical and mathematical concepts of analysis current in the Enlightenment. Thus I explore the relationship between algebra, Condillac's philosophy and Lavoisier's chemical system, as well as comparing Lavoisier's analytical …Read more
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33Monitoring the Stable at the Pasteur InstituteScience in Context 21 (2): 181-200. 2008.ArgumentDiphtheria serum production in France was dominated by the Pasteur Institute, which equipped a facility at Garches to produce the antitoxin on a large scale. This article treats the background to the founding of this facility, as well as its day-to-day functioning around 1900. The treatment integrates an examination of the practical undertaking of serum production by the Pasteur Institute with an analysis of the popular perception of the Institute and the mixed financing of the whole ven…Read more
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24Rise of the carceral stateSocial Research: An International Quarterly 74 (2): 471-508. 2007.No piece of the present conjuncture is more alarming than the explosive growth of the American prison population since the late 1970s. The prison has been a critical element of American government since the early 19th century, but the mentalities of rule and the technologies of power linked to the prison, have changed several times during that history. Building more prison cells, therefore, does not have the same constancy of meaning that building more tanks or more strategic bombers does. While…Read more
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30For centuries the common and scholarly visions of the interior of the human body were dominated by humoral and anatomical representations. At the end of the nineteenth century two innovations modified these representations: Röntgen's X-rays (1895) and Claude Bernard's theory of the internal environment (milieu intérieur, 1867). This latter model became a central paradigm for thinking about the living body at the beginning of the twentieth century. This paper shows how Bernard's theory provided a…Read more
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18Michael Sappol, A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America (review)Metascience 12 (1): 117-120. 2003.
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25Barbara Clow, Negotiating Disease: Power and Cancer Care, 1900â1950 (review)Metascience 12 (1): 47-50. 2003.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |