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  1. Invisible Enemies: Bacteriology and the Language of Politics in Imperial Germany.Christoph Gradmann - 2000 - Science in Context 13 (1):9-30.
    The ArgumentThe text analyzes the related semantics of bacteriology and politics in imperial Germany. The rapid success of bacteriology in the 1880s and 1890s was due not least to the fact that scientific concepts of bacteria as “the smallest but most dangerous enemies of mankind” resonated with contemporary ideas about political enemies. Bacteriological hygiene was expected to provide answers to social and political problems. At the same time metaphors borrowed from bacteriological terminology were incorporated into the political language of the (...)
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  • Pasteur, Koch and American Bacteriology.Patricia Peck Gossel - 2000 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 22 (1):81 - 100.
    This study traces American awareness of the work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch from the 1860s to the 1890s. In the years before the Civil War, American interest in germ theories had appeared at times of epidemics and persisted to a limited extent among physician-microscopists. Discussions of Pasteur's work occurred primarily in the context of spontaneous generation and antisepsis. Few Americans imitated his work on immunology or studied with Pasteur, but his work on immunity influenced their faith in the (...)
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  • The Private Science of Louis Pasteur.Gerald L. Geison - 1996 - Journal of the History of Biology 29 (2):322-325.
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  • The Spontaneous Generation Controversy from Descartes to Oparin.John Farley - 1979 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 30 (1):93-96.
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  • Displaying the invisible: Volkskrankheiten on exhibition in imperial germany.C. Brecht & S. Nikolow - 2000 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 31 (4):511-530.
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  • Science in action: how to follow scientists and engineers through society.Bruno Latour - 1987 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context..
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  • Repräsentationen von Krankheitserregern: Wie Robert Koch Bakterien als Krankheitsursache dargestellt hat.Thomas Schlich - 1996 - In Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Michael Hagner & Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt (eds.), Räume des Wissens: Repräsentation, Codierung, Spur. De Gruyter. pp. 165-190.
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