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Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Gerald Lynn Geison was an American historian who died at 58. Career Gerald L. Geison went on to earn a doctorate in Yale University's Department of the History of Science and Medicine in 1970 and then joined the Princeton faculty, where he was a professor in the history department and the Program in History of Science.

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Gerald L. Geison's Published Works

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The Private Science of Louis Pasteur (1995) (166)
Scientific Change, Emerging Specialties, and Research Schools (1981) (121)
Science, politics and spontaneous generation in nineteenth-century France: the Pasteur-Pouchet debate. (1974) (96)
The Protoplasmic Theory of Life and the Vitalist-Mechanist Debate (1969) (59)
Physiology in the American Context 1850–1940 (1987) (58)
Professions and Professional Ideologies in America (1983) (47)
Professions and the French state, 1700-1900 (1984) (41)
Research Schools and New Directions in the Historiography of Science (1993) (39)
The varied lives of organisms: variation in the historiography of the biological sciences (2001) (33)
The Experimental Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century (1995) (33)
Darwin and heredity: the evolution of his hypothesis of pangenesis. (1969) (33)
3. Divided We Stand: Physiologists and Clinicians in the American Context (1979) (31)
Research schools : historical reappraisals (1993) (28)
Pasteur and the Process of Discovery: The Case of Optical Isomerism (1988) (23)
Pasteur's work on rabies: reexamining the ethical issues. (1978) (20)
Pasteur, Roux, and rabies: scientific versus clinical mentalities. (1990) (16)
Scientific Change, Emerging Specialities, and Research Schools in Innovation and Continuity in Science. (1981) (11)
1. Bridges and Barriers: Narrowing Access and Changing Structure in the French Engineering Profession, 1800-1850 (1984) (11)
Social and institutional factors in the stagnancy of English physiology, 1840-1870. (1972) (10)
4. “Moral Contagion”: A Professional Ideology of Medicine and Psychiatry in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France (1984) (9)
International Relations and Domestic Elites in American Physiology, 1900–1940 (1987) (9)
2. Science, the University, and the State in Nineteenth-Century France (1984) (8)
5. The Politics of Professional Monopoly in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The French Model and Its Rivals (1984) (8)
Pasteur on Vital versus Chemical Ferments: A Previously Unpublished Paper on the Inversion of Sugar (1981) (5)
Professions and Professional Ideologies in America. (1984) (5)
Research Materials and Model Organisms in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences-Introduction: Research Materials and Model Organisms in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (1999) (4)
Feature Reviews (1996) (1)
Bernard's Real Methods: Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry . The Emergence of a Scientist. Frederic Lawrence Holmes. Harvard University Press, C4mbridge, Mass., 1974. xxii, 542 pp., illus. $18. A Commonwealth Fund Book. (1975) (1)
Organization, products, and marketing in Pasteur's scientific enterprise. (2002) (1)
Le débat entre Pasteur et Pouchet: science, politique et génération spontanée, au 19 siècle en France in La science telle qu'elle se fait. Anthologie de la sociologie des sciences de langue anglaise. (1982) (1)
Did Conon of Samos Transmit Babylonian Observations? (1967) (1)
Chapter Five. Creating Life in Nineteenth-Century France Science, Politics, and Religion in the Pasteur- Pouchet Debate over Spontaneous Generation (1996) (0)
Chapter Seven. From Boyhood Encounter to "Private Patients" Pasteur and Rabies before the Vaccine (1996) (0)
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS (1972) (0)
The Modern Experimental Life Sciences: Needs and Opportunities for Historical Research (1991) (0)
Chapter One. Laboratory Notebooks and the Private Science of Louis Pasteur (1996) (0)
3. A “Monarchical Profession” in the Old Regime: Surgeons, Ordinary Practitioners, and Medical Professionalization in Eighteenth-Century France (1984) (0)
Chapter Six. The Secret of Pouilly-le-Fort Competition and Deception in the Race for the Anthrax Vaccine (1996) (0)
The eradication of smallpox: a revisionist view. (1978) (0)
Professions and the French State, 1700-1900. (1985) (0)
Chapter Two. Pasteur in Brief (1996) (0)
Book review (1996) (0)
The History of Science Society Did Conon of Samos Transmit Babylonian Observations ? (2008) (0)
Book Review:Addison and the White Corpuscles: An Aspect of Nineteenth-Century Biology L. J. Rather (1973) (0)
Chapter Eight. Public Triumphs and Forgotten Critics The Debate over Pasteur's Early Use of Rabies Vaccines in Human Cases (1996) (0)
Raw Data (1981) (0)
Chapter Ten. The Myth of Pasteur (1996) (0)
Chapter Four. From Crystals to Life Optical Activity, Fermentation, and Life (1996) (0)
Letters of recommendation. (1974) (0)
Appreciations of Madeline E. Stanton (1981) (0)
Author's Note on Notes and Sources (1996) (0)
Chapter Nine. Private Doubts and Ethical Dilemmas Pasteur, Roux, and the Early Human Trials of Pasteur's Rabies Vaccine (1996) (0)
Chapter Three. The Emergence of a Scientist The Discovery of Optical Isomers in the Tartrates (1996) (0)
Toward a History of American Physiology (1987) (0)
List of Illustrations and Tables (1996) (0)

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