Charles Nicolle, Pasteur`s Imperial Missionary - Typhus and Tunisia

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 science and medicine to society and culture in the first third of the twentieth century.

About the author

Now working full time for the NIH as a researcher/historian, 7/07. Kim Pelis is visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.

Product details

• Authors: Kim Pelis
• Publisher: University Of Rochester Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 6 mm x 9 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 858 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)