Plague and the Global Emergence of Microbiology, 1894–1920
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20072374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shiori Nosaka (0009-0000-8939-6045, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Matheus Alves Duarte Da Silva (0000-0003-0982-6231, University of St Andrews) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Pages | 176-195 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Beyond Science and Empire (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780367814540-13 |
| OpenAlex | W4381488995 |
| ISBN | 9780367814540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This chapter retraces the global production of microbiological knowledge during the first decades of the third plague pandemic (1894–1914), a sanitary and scientific conjuncture that traversed different empires and independent nations. To do so, it maps scientific interactions and the circulation of antiplague sera and vaccines, and as techniques of treatment and immunization. Firstly, this chapter argues that the plague pandemic and microbiology shaped a space of circulation of knowledge connecting France, the Japanese Empire, British India, and Brazil (a former empire recently transformed into a republic). Then, this chapter follows the interactions between actors based in these places and discusses how these exchanges produced new knowledge, about plague treatment and prevention while creating, in parallel, a better awareness of the efficacy and limits of antiplague sera and vaccines. Finally, this chapter presents how this new knowledge shaped mostly outside Europe, had an impact on the research carried on in the Old World. Thus, this chapter concludes that microbiological knowledge and techniques, often seen as a European creation exported to the rest, possess instead more global roots as well as a dynamic and circulatory history
Ancient history · Empire · Geography · Pandemic · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Engineering · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Medicine · Medicine · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |