Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A Philosophical Analysis of Serotherapy in France 1894-1900 (Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology)

by Jonathan Simon (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2016

  $102.79

  This book is a philosophical analysis of the development and production of the anti-diphtheria serum in France from 1894 to 1900. Jonathan Simon's unique approach considers serum, a medicinal drug, as a technological object and analyzes its insertion into the therapeutic environment of diphtheria.