Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of Science (Da Capo Series in Science) - Softcover

Louis Pasteur, free lance of science. [Spontaneous Generation and the Role of Germs in the Economy of Nature; Diseases of Silkworms; Germ Theory of Disease; Mechanisms of Contagion and Disease; Immunity and Vaccination; etc]

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. xxxix, 420 p. : ports. ; 22 cm. ; Series: The Da Capo series in science; A Da Capo paperback; LC: Q143.P2; Dewey: 509.2/4 ; Reprint. Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1960 ; ISBN: 0306802627 (pbk.); 9780306802621 (pbk.) LCCN: 86-511 ; stiff pictorial paper wrappers ; Contents: The Wonderful Century -- The Legend of Pasteur -- Pasteur in Action -- From Crystals to Life -- The Domestication of Microbial Life -- Spontaneous Generation and the Role of Germs in the Economy of Nature -- Th e 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 -- Beyond Experimental Science -- Events of Pasteur s Life Arranged in Chronological Order -- Bibliography -- Index. ; "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 heal th, and his research included studies on rabies, anaerobic life, childbirth fever, silkworms, and beer. René 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." ; FINE. Book. Artikel-Nr. 5477

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