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Daniel (medicine and international health, emeritus, Case Western Reserve U.) recounts the stories of six medical scientists who struggled to understand tuberculosis, from pathologist Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) to antibiotics researcher Selman Abraham Waksman (1888-1973). The author examines their contributions in their own fields, the importance of their discoveries, their specific contribution to the understanding of tuberculosis, and the dramatic expansion of medical science during the times in which they lived.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR

Review
This book is admirable for the subtlety yet clarity of its argument, for the density of underlying archival research, and for the breadth of its historiographical span. AGRICULTURAL HISTORY Vol. 72, #4, Fall 98. Very carefully researched...an exciting and original book. COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS Thoroughly researched and carefully constructed...Storey's monograph provides a valuable addition to the growing literature on processes central to the making of the modern world. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW (Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius) fills an important gap in the emerging historiographical literature on this little-known island. HISTORY A rich and vivid history...may be read with profit by many kinds of historians. ISIS

Book Description
Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius examines, within the context of the history of sugarcane production in Mauritius, the cross-cultural debates about the production and dissemination of science and technology from "developed" to "less-developed" countries and from elites to peasants within these countries. The book also shows in great detail that the history of science, technology, and colonialism can shed light on contemporary problems in natural resource management and global policy making.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius examines, within the context of the history of sugar cane production in Mauritius, the cross-cultural debates about the production and dissemination of science and technology from "developed" to "less-developed" countries and from elites to peasants within these countries. Ultimately, Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius shows that the history of science, technology, and colonialism can shed light on contemporary problems in natural resource management and global policy-making.

SYNOPSIS

An analysis of the historical and scientific effects of technology transfer from an imperial to colonial setting.

FROM THE CRITICS

Anthony J. Barker