French bacteriological research took root more strongly in the colonies than in France
Evidence
As a major power with a far-flung empire, the Third Republic committed itself both ideologically and institutionally to this new research through one organization in particular: the Institut Pasteur. The first opened in France in 1888, and between 1891 and 1914 no less than seven lnstituts Pasteur were founded overseas. Indeed, as Anne Marie Moulin has argued and as these figures suggest, French bacteriological research and teaching took root more successfully among doctors in the colonies than in the metropole. In France, academic physicians accepted Pasteur’s results but failed to promote the laboratory-based research he had pioneered. Microbiology did not become part of the medical curriculum before World War I, and the Institut Pasteur remained the only metropolitan center for medical research until World War II. In the colonies, however, military doctors, surgeons, and veterinarians embraced Pasteurian doctrines almost immediately. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 212
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s ongoing interest in how French republican civilizing projects operated through imperial institutions rather than purely metropolitan ones. — connects to: Germ theory newly enabled Europeans to prevent disease and expand empire; Sleeping sickness dominated French bacteriological research in sub-Saharan Africa; Colonial administrators enacted public health laws with more force than French ones
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 212
Broader Connections
- Sleeping sickness dominated French bacteriological research in sub-Saharan Africa
#expands(0.70) - Colonial administrators enacted public health laws with more force than French ones
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