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Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)

New Books in the History of Science

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Pastorization - The Concept of Pasteurization

The term pastorization refers to this way of trying to solve political problems with microbiological tools. The project for developing a yellow fever vaxcine was also a way through which french administrators tried to resolve racial and political tensions in west africa that other kinds of public health measures were amplifying. Anyou have these sort of different iterations from the name, right? Like how those kinds of iterations of from paster fit together. Yes, you know, every book has got to have its own neologism,. And this one's yours, this one's mine.

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