I Microbi: Trattato scientifico-politico

(II) 1984
I Microbi: Trattato scientifico-politico

Date: 1991
Publisher: Editori Riuniti
Language: Italian
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Description

The book is made of two parts: the first one is a detailed exploration of the litterature around Pasteur’s rise from obscurity to fame and of the corresponding transformations of microbes from invisibility to prominence; the impossibility of a social explanation of science is then explored in a second part which provides the ontological basis for what has become known as « actor-network theory”. (Full Italian text accessible here)

Original Title

Les Microbes: guerre et paix, suivi de Irréductions

Date: 1984 [2001 : New pocket edition by La Découverte with new layout but text unchanged and notes in agreement with the English version]
Publisher: LaDécouverte
Language: Français

Other Translations

Bakteriologie und Moderne. Studien zur Biopolitik des Unsichtbaren, 1870-1930

Bakteriologie und Moderne. Studien zur Biopolitik des Unsichtbaren, 1870-1930

Date: 2006 [German translation of Part II, Philipp Sarasin (editor)]
Publisher: Suhrkamp
Translator(s): Gustav Roßler
Language: German

The Pasteurization of France

Date: 1988
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass
Translator(s): A. Sheridan and J. Law
Language: English