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Louis Pasteur

Vaccines for rabies and anthrax...the process of pasteurization...These are just some of Louis Pasteur's invaluable contributions to science. But there are those who say his methods were unethical. In this hour: a look at Pasteur's contributions and conduct...on the one-hundredth anniversary of the French microbiologist's death.

Guests:
Gerald Geison
Professor of History
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

Dr. Robert Joy
Chairman and Professor, Section of Medical History
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD

Abigail Salyers
Professor of Microbiology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

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