Rethinking the history of microbiology: new actors, geographies, places of knowledge, and ecologies.

IF 1.6 3区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, Mathilde Gallay-Keller
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Abstract

In this introduction, we first paint a panorama of the historiography of microbiology from the end of the nineteenth century until today, spanning from Pasteurian hagiographies, institutional histories, STS-informed analyses to critical research on the emergence of microbiology in an age of global empires. We then suggest three possibilities for historians and anthropologists to rethink the past and present of microbiology: (1) by centralizing the focus of their analyses on geographies and actors outside of the realm of the Pasteur Institute and of the Pasteurians; (2) by studying places of knowledge beyond the laboratory and their interactions with the laboratory; and (3) by researching the past and present of complex ecologies that go beyond sole interactions between humans and pathogenic microbes. These three ways of recentralizing the history of microbiology are not unprecedented nor were they firstly enacted in this collection. On the contrary, this collection builds on a growing stream of innovative research and widens current avenues of research, helping thus to rethink the history of microbiology in a more global and inclusive way.

重新思考微生物学的历史:新的角色,地理,知识的地方,和生态。
在这篇介绍中,我们首先描绘了从19世纪末到今天的微生物学史学的全景,从巴氏圣徒传记、机构历史、sts信息分析到微生物学在全球帝国时代出现的批判性研究。然后,我们建议历史学家和人类学家重新思考微生物学的过去和现在的三种可能性:(1)将他们的分析重点集中在巴斯德研究所和巴斯德学派领域之外的地理和行动者上;(2)研究实验室以外的知识领域及其与实验室的相互作用;(3)通过研究超越人类与致病微生物之间单一相互作用的复杂生态系统的过去和现在。这三种重新集中微生物学历史的方式并不是前所未有的,也不是他们首先在这个集合中颁布的。相反,该系列建立在不断增长的创新研究流的基础上,拓宽了当前的研究途径,从而有助于以更加全球化和包容性的方式重新思考微生物学的历史。
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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 综合性期刊-科学史与科学哲学
CiteScore
2.60
自引率
5.00%
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58
期刊介绍: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences is an interdisciplinary journal committed to providing an integrative approach to understanding the life sciences. It welcomes submissions from historians, philosophers, biologists, physicians, ethicists and scholars in the social studies of science. Contributors are expected to offer broad and interdisciplinary perspectives on the development of biology, biomedicine and related fields, especially as these perspectives illuminate the foundations, development, and/or implications of scientific practices and related developments. Submissions which are collaborative and feature different disciplinary approaches are especially encouraged, as are submissions written by senior and junior scholars (including graduate students).
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