Rabies in all its forms. From ancient approaches to current research.
PUProvence| N° d'inventaire | 23264 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 230 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Marseille, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791032002834 |
This resolutely interdisciplinary work brings together studies at the intersection of medical, biological, and human sciences and sheds light on little-known or even completely new aspects of rabies. This disease continues to kill around 50,000 people a year worldwide, even though a highly effective vaccine exists if administered in time. The work begins with data on rabies as a disease and is then divided into three main parts. It focuses on Greco-Roman Antiquity, analyzed from a philological perspective as well as through two corpora (Plinian and Galenic). Extensions to more recent periods then allow us to trace over 2,000 years the manifestations of furious rabies, which could be at the origin of the legend of lycanthropes, as well as the evocations of a remedy recalling the principle of vaccination. The analysis of thousands of attacks on human beings in France has made it possible to establish a clear distinction between predatory wolves and rabid wolves. Finally, the book concludes with the biography and evocation of the work of three forgotten figures in the history of rabies: the Lyon veterinarian Pierre-Victor Galtier who paved the way for Louis Pasteur, the doctor Charles Livon at the origin of the anti-rabies inoculation center in Marseille, and the microbiologist Léon Perdrix, collaborator of Pasteur and dean of the Faculty of Sciences of Marseille.
This resolutely interdisciplinary work brings together studies at the intersection of medical, biological, and human sciences and sheds light on little-known or even completely new aspects of rabies. This disease continues to kill around 50,000 people a year worldwide, even though a highly effective vaccine exists if administered in time. The work begins with data on rabies as a disease and is then divided into three main parts. It focuses on Greco-Roman Antiquity, analyzed from a philological perspective as well as through two corpora (Plinian and Galenic). Extensions to more recent periods then allow us to trace over 2,000 years the manifestations of furious rabies, which could be at the origin of the legend of lycanthropes, as well as the evocations of a remedy recalling the principle of vaccination. The analysis of thousands of attacks on human beings in France has made it possible to establish a clear distinction between predatory wolves and rabid wolves. Finally, the book concludes with the biography and evocation of the work of three forgotten figures in the history of rabies: the Lyon veterinarian Pierre-Victor Galtier who paved the way for Louis Pasteur, the doctor Charles Livon at the origin of the anti-rabies inoculation center in Marseille, and the microbiologist Léon Perdrix, collaborator of Pasteur and dean of the Faculty of Sciences of Marseille.