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- Title
Producing, Controlling, and Stabilizing Pasteur's Anthrax Vaccine: Creating a New Industry and a Health Market.
- Authors
Cassier, Maurice
- Abstract
The article offers information on the production, control and stabilization of Louis Pasteur's anthrax vaccine. Initially, the incompleteness and ongoing development of production standards justified Pasteur's monopoly on the anthrax vaccine production. Later on, the Pasteur institute maintained control of these standards in the framework of a commercial monopoly. This article explains the phase of establishing the production laboratory and dispatching anthrax vaccines, even while the standards were still being defined. It analyzes the forces that motivated the construction of the commercial monopoly. It examines the tensions weighing on the commercial monopoly and the technical standards of Pasteur's vaccine.
- Subjects
VACCINES; ANTHRAX; PASTEUR, Louis, 1822-1895; MONOPOLIES; PRODUCTION standards; STANDARDS
- Publication
Science in Context (0269-8897), 2008, Vol 21, Issue 2, p253
- ISSN
0269-8897
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0269889708001713