Gradmann C
Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Heidelberg.
Med Ges Gesch. 1995;13:35-54.
The text analyses Koch's microbiology and its rapid success within the context of the intellectual history of Wilhelminian [1888-1918] Germany. Studies of visual and verbal popularisations of microbiology show that scientific theory of microbiology, by communicating in the political language of its age, was followed by an equally specific popular image of the same topic. This included both popularisations of microbiology in militaristic metaphors and the analogous use of microbiological concepts as popularisations of imperialistic and agressive concepts of politics. Thus, the development and success of microbiology is linked to the development of the political language of its age.
本文分析了科赫的微生物学及其在威廉时代（1888 - 1918）德国知识史背景下的迅速成功。对微生物学视觉和文字通俗化的研究表明，微生物学的科学理论通过运用其时代的政治语言进行传播，随之而来的是同一主题同样具有特定性的通俗形象。这既包括用军国主义隐喻对微生物学的通俗化，也包括将微生物学概念类似地用作帝国主义和侵略性政治概念的通俗化。因此，微生物学的发展与成功与其时代政治语言的发展相关联。
