Louis Pasteur

The most extensive, balanced, and detailed account of Pasteur's life, struggles and contributions yet written

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Distinguished French immunologist and physician Patrice Debr? offers an extensive, balanced, and detailed account of Louis Pasteur's life, struggles, and contributions. Drawing heavily on Pasteur's own scientific notebooks and writings, Debr? presents a complete critical account of his discoveries and the controversies they raised with other scientists and occasionally with his closest associates.

Patrice Debré heads the biological immunology laboratory at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris and directs a research unit associated with the French National Center for Scientific Research. He has also published a biographical study of the French Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod. Elborg Forster's translations for Johns Hopkins include Medieval Marriage by Georges Duby and Illness and Self in Society by Claudine Herzlich and Janine Pierret.