Mold's Dominion: Science, Empire, and Capitalism in a Globalizing World.
Today, Jōkichi Takamine and Albert Calmette are known for their contribution to the history of medicine. Yet their early careers centered not on medicine, but on biotechnology, and on parallel projects to bring a food processing technology used across Asia to new audiences around the world. In the e...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 126; no. 1; pp. 82 - 109 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2021
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