By Patrice Debré. Translated by Elborg Forster. 552 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-5808-9.
Louis Pasteur is one of the secular saints of France, as wellas a hero of medicine and science of mythic stature. Books,plays, and poems have been written about him, and yet it isonly recently that a critical historical appraisal of Pasteurand his work has begun. Partly because of his canonization,partly because of the former inaccessibility of his scientificrecords, and partly because his published works are often vaguewith respect to the details of his experiments, historians havenot applied their analytic skills to Pasteur. There have beentwo standard biographies of Pasteur available in . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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