Alexandre Métraux, Archives Henri Poincaré, University of Lorraine (Nancy), The Colors of Life. Some Remarks on Paul Ehrlich's Physiological Practices

 

Monday, 29/10/2012, 18:00-19:30

Gilman Building, room 449

 

Paul Ehrlich was awarded the Nobel prize in 1908 for his contributions to the development of chemotherapy. Most historians of science have chosen these pioneer contributions as the frame of reference held to be the analytically most promising for the reconstruction of Ehrlich’s career, industrial and professional networks, and key theoretical notions. A closer look at the various fronts on which this figure of biomedical research became active from the outset suggests, however, that the progress towards chemotherapy was anything but monolinear. The presentation will shed light upon Ehrlich’s early research on staining techniques and on the physiological examination of oxygen metabolism by the use of synthetic dyestuffs. These two fields of research reveal themselves in hindsight to be at the same time both real ancestors and opposites of chemotherapy. The epistemological tension between continuity and discontinuity will be specifically discussed.

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