Davidovitch, Nadav (Author)
Zalashik, Rakefet (Author)
Science in Context
Volume: 23
Pages: 401--425
Publication date: 2010
Language: English
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “Science in an Israeli Context: Case Studies”
We examine the creation and functioning of the Pasteur Institute in Palestine focusing on the relationship between biological science, health policy, and the creation of a new society within the framework of Zionism. Similar to other bacteriological institutes founded by colonial powers, this laboratory was developed in response to public health needs. But it also had a political role. Dr. Leo Böhm, a Zionist physician, strived to establish his institution along the lines of the Zionist aspiration to develop a national entity based on strong scientific foundations. Even though the institute enjoyed several fruitful years of operation, mainly during World War I, it achieved no lasting national or scientific importance in the country. Böhm failed to adapt to new ways of knowledge production, scientifically and socially. The case study of the Pasteur Institute in Palestine serves as a prism to view the role of the public health laboratory in the history of Palestine with its ongoing changes of scientific, organizational, and political context.
...MoreDescription Focuses on the Pasteur Institute in Palestine and “the relationship between biological science, health policy, and the creation of a “new society” within the framework of Zionism.” (from the abstract) Other articles in this issue:
Article Golan, Tal (2010) The Kishon Affair: Science, Law, and the Politics of Causation. Science in Context (p. 535).
Article Corry, Leo; Schappacher, Norbert (2010) Zionist Internationalism through Number Theory: Edmund Landau at the Opening of the Hebrew University in 1925. Science in Context (p. 427).
Article Rolnik, Eran J. (2010) Therapy and Ideology: Psychoanalysis and Its Vicissitudes in Pre-state Israel (Including Some Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein). Science in Context (p. 473).
Article Krampf, Arie (2010) Economic Planning of the Free Market in Israel during the First Decade: The Influence of Don Patinkin on Israeli Policy Discourse. Science in Context (p. 507).
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