Latour (1988a)
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Latour, Bruno. (1988) The Pasteurization of France. Harvard University Press.
Title | The Pasteurization of France |
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Resource Type | book |
Author(s) | Bruno Latour |
Year | 1988 |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
ISBN | 9780674657618 |
Abstract
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."