The Pasteurization of France  

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Pasteur: Guerre et paix des microbes (1984, published in English as The Pasteurization of France in 1988) is a book by Bruno Latour. In it, he reviews the life and career of one of France's most famous scientists Louis Pasteur and his discovery of microbes, in the fashion of a political biography.

Latour highlights the social forces at work in and around Pasteur's career and the uneven manner in which his theories were accepted.

By providing more explicitly ideological explanations for the acceptance of Pasteur's work more easily in some quarters than in others, he seeks to undermine the notion that the acceptance and rejection of scientific theories is primarily, or even usually, a matter of experiment, evidence or reason.

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