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Of Cures and Curses: Toward a Critique of Curative Reason

Bharat Jayram Venkat

Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 277–282.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310918

Published: 01 May 2018

... Press . Chakrabarti Pratik . 2012 . Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics . Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press . Cody Francis . 2013 . The Light of Knowledge: Literary Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India . Ithaca, NY...

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Cures

Bharat Jayram Venkat

Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 475–497.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3511502

Published: 01 September 2016

... serious objections on a variety of evidential grounds. Within whiggish histories of medicine, the status of Koch’s discovery was quickly downgraded from a triumph of bacteriological reason to an embarrassing footnote in an otherwise illustrious career. Nevertheless, Koch’s discovery raised complex...

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Cures, Tuberculosis, and Deterritorialized Biomedical Narratives

Paul H. Mason, Greg Fox, Jennifer Ho, Chris Degeling

Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 269–276.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310906

Published: 01 May 2018

... on bacteriological markers with the body’s overall vitality largely neglected. Balancing out individual characteristics between groups, RCTs offer a picture of the average effects distributed across populations but are poor at identifying effects in different segments of a population, let alone on individuals each...

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Thomas Laqueur

Seth Koven

Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 65–84.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1890468

Published: 01 January 2013

... research. The same Uncle Ernst helped him get a job at the Univer- sity of Istanbul in 1938. My father never set foot in Germany again. SK: And your mother? TL: My mother worked for a professor of bacteriology in Frankfurt. He had to let...

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Jews, Lice, and History

Hugh Raffles

Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 521–566.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-008

Published: 01 September 2007

... of the bacteriological sciences. Robert Koch, pioneer of German 91. See Etienne Balibar, “Is There a ‘Neo-Racism in Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Iden- tities, ed. Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein (New York: Verso, 1991), 17 – 28, 28 n. 8...

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The European Nation-State: On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship

Jürgen Habermas, Ciaran Cronin

Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 397–416.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-397

Published: 01 May 1998

... countries already possess bacteriological weapons; cf. E. O. Czempiel, Weltpolitik im Umbruch (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1993), 93. 415 Public Culture hagen is unsettling. There is a lack of competent agencies on the international level...

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Ostalgie and the Politics of the Future in Eastern Germany

Dominic Boyer

Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 361–381.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-008

Published: 01 May 2006

... theory in medicine was finally displaced by cellular theory and bacteriology. As late as the American Civil War, over five thousand cases of nostalgia were medically 3 6 5 Public Culture documented among soldiers. In Bruno...

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