John Farley, born in Leicester on April 23, 1936, and died on November 10, 2015, was a Canadian

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, author of several works and articles on the

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. His work has had an influence on the

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. In a 1999 article and a 2003 book,Dominique Raynaud, ''Sociologie des controverses scientifiques'', Paris, PUF, 2003 , p. 45-80. D. Raynaud concludes that the apology for Félix Pouchet presented by Farley and

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in their 1974 article on the controversy between Pouchet and Pasteur is futile.

Publications

* J. Farley et G. Geison, "Science, Politics, and Spontaneous Generation in Nineteenth-Century France : The Pasteur-Pouchet Debate", ''Bulletin of the History of Medicine'', t. 48 (1974), p. 161-198. * ''The spontaneous generation controversy from Descartes to Oparin'', Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. * ''Gametes & spores : ideas about sexual reproduction, 1750-1914'', Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. * ''Bilharzia : a history of imperial tropical medicine'', Cambridge; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1991. * ''To cast out disease : a history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951)'', Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. * John Farley and Gerald L. Geison, "Le débat entre Pateur et Pouchet: science, politique et génération spontanée au XIXe siècle en France", in

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, ''La science telle qu'elle se fait. Anthologie de la sociologie des sciences de langue anglaise'', Éditions de La Découverte, 1991, p. 87-146. (French translation of the 1974 article.)

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1936 births 2015 deaths 20th-century Canadian historians Historians of science {{Canada-historian-stub