In a 1999 article[2] and a 2003 book,[3] D. Raynaud concludes that the apology for
Félix Pouchet presented by Farley and
Gerald L. Geison in their 1974 article on the controversy between Pouchet and Pasteur is futile.
Publications
J. Farley et G. Geison, "Science, Politics, and Spontaneous Generation in Nineteenth-Century France : The Pasteur-Pouchet Debate", Bulletin of the History of Medicine, t. 48 (1974), p. 161-198.
The spontaneous generation controversy from Descartes to Oparin, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
Gametes & spores : ideas about sexual reproduction, 1750-1914, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Bilharzia : a history of imperial tropical medicine, Cambridge; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
To cast out disease : a history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951), Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
John Farley and Gerald L. Geison, "Le débat entre Pateur et Pouchet: science, politique et génération spontanée au XIXe siècle en France", in
Michel Callon et
Bruno Latour, La science telle qu'elle se fait. Anthologie de la sociologie des sciences de langue anglaise, Éditions de La Découverte, 1991, p. 87-146. (French translation of the 1974 article.)
Notes and references
^G. McOuat, "Obituary" in Communiqué, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Winter 2016, pp. 1 and 3-4,
online.
^Dominique Raynaud, "La correspondance de F.-A. Pouchet avec les membres de l'Académie des Sciences: une réévaluation du débat sur la génération spontanée", European Journal of Sociology, 1999, 40 (2), p. 257-276,
online.
^Dominique Raynaud, Sociologie des controverses scientifiques, Paris, PUF, 2003 , p. 45-80.