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- Title
Enacting Cultural Boundaries in French and German Diphtheria Serum Research.
- Authors
Klöppel, Ulrike
- Abstract
The author discusses the experimental development of a therapeutic serum against diphtheria between 1891 and 1894. The development was characterized by a scientific competition that pitted Emil Behring from the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin, Germany against Emile Roux and Elie Metschnikoff from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France. According to the author, the disputes between Behring and Roux as well as between Behring and Metschnikoff can be understood in terms of Andrew Mendelsohn's illuminating thesis about the two cultures of bacteriology. The thesis focuses on the distinction between the research schools of Robert Koch, founder of the Institute for Hygiene in 1885 and that of Louis Pasteur, founder of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France in 1888.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC competition; THERAPEUTICS; SERUM; DIPHTHERIA; BEHRING, Emil von, 1854-1917; ROUX, Monsieur (Emile), 1853-1933; METSCHNIKOFF, Elie; MENDELSOHN, Andrew; KOCH, Robert; PASTEUR, Louis, 1822-1895
- Publication
Science in Context (0269-8897), 2008, Vol 21, Issue 2, p161
- ISSN
0269-8897
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0269889708001671