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- Title
Packaging BCG: Standardizing an Anti-Tuberculosis Vaccine in Interwar Europe.
- Authors
Bonah, Christian
- Abstract
The article aims to look behind or beyond the advocacy of the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccines by its inventor and producer at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France and addresses the question of how, in the local and national French setting, BCG became a genuine standard preventive vaccine packaged and commercialized in a small cardboard box. It addresses the question of why and how this local laboratory process of standardization reached its limits with the arrival of international distribution. It cites changes in practice and organization of BCG production and distribution in the 1930s.
- Subjects
PARIS (France); FRANCE; BCG vaccines; TUBERCULOSIS vaccines; INVENTORS; PREVENTIVE medicine; RESEARCH institutes
- Publication
Science in Context (0269-8897), 2008, Vol 21, Issue 2, p279
- ISSN
0269-8897
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0269889708001725