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Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's imperial missionary : typhus and Tunisia
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ISBN: 1580464653 128138299X 9786611382995 1580466567 Year: 2006 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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Kim Pelis uses a wide range of French and Tunisian archival materials and a close reading of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle's scientific papers and philosophical treatises to explore the relationship of scienceand medicine to society and culture in the first third of the twentieth century. This book examines the biomedical research of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle during his tenure as director of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis. Using typhus as its lens, it demonstrates how the complexities of early twentieth century bacteriology, French imperial ideology, the "Pastorian mission," and conditions in colonial Tunisia blended to inform the triumphs and disappointments of Nicolle's fascinating career. It illuminates how thesediverse elements shaped Nicolle's personal identity, the identity of his institute, and his innovative conception of the "birth, life, and death" -- or, the emergence and eradication -- of infectious disease. Kim Pelis blends exhaustive archival research with a close reading of Nicolle's written work -- scientific papers, philosophical treatises, and literary contributions -- to explore the complex relations between biomedical ideas and socioculturalcontext. The result is a study that will be of interest not only to students of French history, colonial medicine, and the history of the biomedical sciences but also to anyone seeking to understand how individuals have attemptedto deal creatively with complex times and ambiguous knowledge. Kim Pelis, a medical historian by training, is a writer for the director of the National Institutes of Health.


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One Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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“One Health” is defined as an approach to achieve better health outcomes for humans, animals, and the environment through collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts. The One Health framework is increasingly being applied to the management, control, and even elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a set of infectious diseases that, collectively, affect more than one billion people across almost 150 countries. NTDs are some of the most common infections in the world; they cause substantial morbidity and mortality, particularly in regions with little access to medical care and other resources. Although there is increasing recognition of the major public health threat presented by NTDs, the ecological complexities of their transmission continue to pose challenges for their control and elimination. Some NTDs are zoonotic, meaning that they can be transmitted between humans and animals and, as such, present obstacles for public health and veterinary services in addition to concerns for wildlife conservation. Vector-borne NTDs necessitate measures that integrate consideration of the environment into public health strategies in order to sustainably reduce disease transmission. This book presents a collection of papers that explore various aspects of how the One Health concept is being applied to NTD control around the world, from genomics and diagnostic tools to improved surveillance and disease management. Encompassing research from Central America, the Caribbean, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, the collection emphasizes the diversity of NTDs as well as the critical importance of multisectoral collaboration for their control and elimination.


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One Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases
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“One Health” is defined as an approach to achieve better health outcomes for humans, animals, and the environment through collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts. The One Health framework is increasingly being applied to the management, control, and even elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a set of infectious diseases that, collectively, affect more than one billion people across almost 150 countries. NTDs are some of the most common infections in the world; they cause substantial morbidity and mortality, particularly in regions with little access to medical care and other resources. Although there is increasing recognition of the major public health threat presented by NTDs, the ecological complexities of their transmission continue to pose challenges for their control and elimination. Some NTDs are zoonotic, meaning that they can be transmitted between humans and animals and, as such, present obstacles for public health and veterinary services in addition to concerns for wildlife conservation. Vector-borne NTDs necessitate measures that integrate consideration of the environment into public health strategies in order to sustainably reduce disease transmission. This book presents a collection of papers that explore various aspects of how the One Health concept is being applied to NTD control around the world, from genomics and diagnostic tools to improved surveillance and disease management. Encompassing research from Central America, the Caribbean, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, the collection emphasizes the diversity of NTDs as well as the critical importance of multisectoral collaboration for their control and elimination.


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Annales de l'Institut Pasteur.
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ISSN: 18791867 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York, NY : Elsevier Science Pub. Co.

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Shifting boundaries of public health
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ISBN: 9781580462839 1580462839 9781580467506 1580464556 9786613011312 1580467504 128301131X Year: 2008 Publisher: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer

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In contrast to histories of twentieth century public health that focus exclusively on the local, national, or international levels, 'Shifting Boundaries' explores the connections or 'zones of contact' between the three levels. The interpretive essays, written by distinguished historians of public health and medicine, focus on four topics: the oscillation between governmental and non-governmental (public) agencies as sites of responsibility for addressing public health problems; the harmonization of nation states' agendas with those of international agencies; the development by public health experts of knowledge that is both placeless and respectful of place; and the transportability of model solutions across borders. The volume breaks new ground in its treatment of public health as a political endeavor by highlighting strategies to prevent or alleviate disease as a matter not simply of medical techniques, but of political values and commitments. Contributors: Peter Baldwin, Iris Borowy, James A. Gillespie, Graham Mooney, Lion Murard, Dorothy Porter, Sabine Schleiermacher, Susan Gross Solomon, Paul Weindling, and Patrick Zylberman. Susan Gross Solomon is professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Lion Murard and Patrick Zylberman are both senior researchers at CERMES (Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société), CNRS-EHESS-INSERM, Paris.


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Pasteur's empire : bacteriology and politics in France, its colonies, and the world
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ISBN: 0190072822 0190072857 0190072830 9780190072827 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Pasteur's Empire shows how the scientific prestige of the Pasteur Institute came to depend on its colonial laboratories, and how, conversely, the institutes themselves became central to colonial politics. This book argues that decisions as small as the isolation of a particular yeast or the choice of a laboratory animal could have tremendous consequences on the lives of Vietnamese and African subjects, who became the consumers of new vaccines or industrially fermented intoxicants. Simultaneously, global forces, such as the rise of international standards and American competitors pushed Pastorians to their imperial laboratories, where they could conduct studies that researchers in France considered too difficult or controversial. Chapters follow not just Alexandre Yersin's studies of the plague, Charles Nicolle's public health work in Tunisia, and Jean Laigret's work on yellow fever in Dakar, but also the activities of Vietnamese doctors, African students and politicians, Syrian traders, and Chinese warlords. It argues that a specifically Pastorian understanding of microbiology shaped French colonial politics across the world, allowing French officials to promise hygienic modernity while actually committing to little development. In bringing together global history, imperial history, and science and technology studies, Pasteur's Empire deftly integrates micro and macro analyses into one connected narrative that sheds critical light on a key era in the history of medicine.

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Bacteriology --- Medical laboratories --- Imperialism and science --- Science and imperialism --- Science --- Diagnosis, Laboratory --- Health facilities --- Laboratories --- Microbiology --- History --- Pasteur, Louis, --- Paster, Lui, --- Pa-xtʼ, Lu-i, --- Pasteur, --- פסטר, לואי --- Pasteur, L. --- Pasteur, Luis, --- Institut Pasteur (Paris, France) --- Pasteur Institute (Paris, France) --- Société française de microbiologie. --- France --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Colonies --- Bacteriology. --- French colonies. --- Imperialism and science. --- Medical laboratories. --- History. --- 1800-1899 --- France. --- Institut Pasteur de Paris


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Einstein before Israel : Zionist icon or iconoclast?
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ISBN: 1400838371 0691144125 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"A vivid sense of strangeness": Einstein's path to the Zionist movement -- A different kind of nationalism: Einstein's induction and mobilization into the Zionist movement -- The "prize-winning ox" in "Dollaria": Einstein's fundraising trip to the United States in 1921 -- Secular pilgrim or Zionist tourist?: Einstein's tour of Palestine in 1923 -- The "botched university": Einstein's involvement in the Hebrew University, 1924-1929 -- "A genuine symbiosis": Einstein on the 1929 clashes in Palestine -- The "bug-infested house": Einstein's involvement in the Hebrew University, 1930-1933.

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Zionisme. --- Kwantummechanica. --- Zionism. --- Einstein, Albert, --- Palestina. --- Israël (staat) --- Jews --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- Zionism --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- Israel --- Eretz Israel --- Erets Israel --- Erets Yiśraʼel --- Filasṭīn --- Palesṭin --- Erez Jisrael --- Paleśtinah --- Memshelet Paleśtinah --- Palestina --- Palästina --- Falastīn --- Political and social views. --- Einstein, Albert --- Aiyinsitan, Abote, --- Aĭnshtaĭn, Albert, --- Ainshutain, A, --- Ain̲sṭain̲, Ālparṭ, --- Ainsṭāina, Albarṭa, --- Ajnštajn, Albert, --- Āynishtayn, --- Aynshtayn, Albert, --- Eĭnshteĭn, Alʹbert, --- אינשטין, אלברט, --- איינשטיין --- איינשטיין, אלבערט, --- איינשטיין, אלברט --- איינשטיין, אלברט, --- Aynştayn, Elbêrt, --- Īnshtīn, --- Aynîştayn, --- Aiyinsitan, --- 愛因斯坦, --- 爱因斯坦, --- Abraham Flexner. --- Abraham Fraenkel. --- Ahad Ha'am. --- Albert Einstein Archives. --- Albert Einstein. --- Alfred Dreyfus. --- Aliyah. --- American Schools of Oriental Research. --- Anti-Zionism. --- Arab–Israeli conflict. --- Arthur Ruppin. --- Axis powers. --- Balfour Declaration. --- Berliner Tageblatt. --- Blood libel. --- Chaim Weizmann. --- Chief Rabbi. --- Churchill White Paper. --- Cultural Zionism. --- Culture and Society. --- Cyrus Adler. --- Disenchantment. --- Dora Diamant. --- Einstein Papers Project. --- Einstein family. --- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. --- Emil Grunzweig. --- Ernest Rutherford. --- Ernest Solvay. --- Felix Ehrenhaft. --- First Intifada. --- Franz Kafka. --- Fritz Haber. --- George Mosse. --- German model. --- Gustav Landauer. --- Habilitation. --- Haredi Judaism. --- Harvard University. --- Hebrew University of Jerusalem. --- Hebrew labor. --- His Family. --- Hugo Haase. --- Independent People. --- Jehuda Reinharz. --- Jewish Underground. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish identity. --- Jews. --- Jingoism. --- Judaism. --- Kapp Putsch. --- Kurt Blumenfeld. --- Kurt Hiller. --- Leon Simon (Zionist). --- Leon Uris. --- Martin Buber. --- Maurice Solovine. --- Max Brod. --- Max Planck. --- Middle East. --- Moshe Zimmermann. --- Mount Scopus. --- Nahum Sokolow. --- Nobel Prize. --- Norman Bentwich. --- On the Eve. --- Orientalism. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Pacifism. --- Pasteur Institute. --- Paul Ehrenfest. --- Paul Warburg. --- Peace Now. --- Peaceful coexistence. --- Police action. --- Political machine. --- Post-Zionism. --- Protectionism. --- Prussian Academy of Sciences. --- Religious antisemitism. --- Revisionist Zionism. --- Safed. --- Secularism. --- Social Darwinism. --- Solvay Conference. --- The Other Hand. --- The Rothschilds (musical). --- United Jewish Appeal. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Walther Nernst. --- Warfare. --- Weimar Republic. --- Weizmann. --- West Jerusalem. --- Wilhelm Ostwald. --- Wissenschaft des Judentums. --- Zionist Organization of America.

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