Ilana Lowy


Function:

Directrice de Recherche INSERM,

Affiliation: CERMES, (INSERM/CNRS/ EHSS), rue Guy Moquet, 99801 Villejuif cedex.




Liste des publications

(sciences humaines et sociales)




LIVRES


I. Löwy, The Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine: From Tytus Chalubinski to Ludwik Fleck, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990.

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I. Löwy, Between Bench and Bedside: Science, Healing and Interleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996 (traduction française Cancer des chercheurs, cancer des clinicens: Trajectoire d'une innovation thérapeutique, Paris: Archives d'Histoire Contemporaine, 2002).


I. Löwy, Medical Acts and Medical Facts: The Polish Tradition of Practice Grounded Reflections on Medicine and Science, Krakow: L'Academie Polonaise des Sciences, 2000.


  1. Löwy, Virus, moustiques et modernité : Science, politique et la fièvr e jaune au Brésil, Paris: Archives d’Histoire Contemporaine, 2001.



  1. Löwy, L'emprise du genre: Masculinité, féminité , inégalité, Paris: La Dispute, 2006.


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VOLUMES EDITÉS


I. Löwy, (ed.) Medicine and Change: Historical and Sociological Studies of Medical Innovations, Paris &Londres: John Libbey, 1993.


J.P. Gaudillière &I. Löwy (eds.) The Invisible Industrialist: Manufactures and the Production of Scientific Knowledge, Londres: Macmillan,1998.


Delphine Gardey and Ilana Löwy (eds.) L'invention du naturel: Les sciences et la fabrication du masculin et du feminin, Paris: Archives d'Histoire Contemporaine, 2000.


Ilana Löwy and Patrick Zylberman ( guest eds.),The Rockefeller Foundation and Biomedical Sciences, special issue of Studies in History and Philosphy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2000, 31C.


Jean Paul Gaudillière and Ilana Löwy (eds.), Heredity and Infection: Historical Essays on the Transmission of Human Diseases, London and New York: Routledge, 2001.


Ilana Löwy and John Krige (eds.) Science, Public Health and Images of Disease: Europe, 1945-1995, Bruxelles: European Comission’s Editions, 2001.


Ilana Löwy & Hélène Rouch (eds), La distinction entre sexe et genre: Une historie entre biologie et culture, Paris: L'Harmattan , 2003.


Ilana Löwy ( guest ed.) Ludwik Fleck: Epistemology and Biomdical Sciences, special issue, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2004, 35c.



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ARTICLES


"La double nature de l'immunologie: histoire de la transplantation rénale", Fundamentia Scientiae, 1983, 3/4, 201-218. (avec AM.. Moulin)

"Du don à l'échange: les institutions de la transplantation", Culture Technique, 1985, 15, 156-163.


"Tissue groups and cadaver kidney sharing: socio-cultural aspects of a medical controversy", Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 1986, 2, 195-218.


"The epistemology of the science of an epistemologist of the sciences: Ludwik Fleck's professional outlook and its relationship to his philosophical works", dans R.S. Cohen and T. Schnelle (eds.), Cognition and Fact - Materials on Ludwik Fleck,, Dordrecht, 1986, D. Reidel, pp. 421-442.


"Choix scientifiques et choix éthiques dans le traitement de la maladie rénale terminale", Information sur les Sciences sociales, 1987, 26, 3, 577-605.


"The impact of medical practice on biomedical research: the case of human leucocyte antigens studies", Minerva, 1987, XXV, 1-2, 171-200.


"Quantification in science and cognition circa 1937: a newly discovered text of Ludwik Fleck", Science in Context, 1988, 2, 345-355.


"The scientific roots of constructivist epistemologies: Hélène Metzger and Ludwik Fleck",dans, Studies on Hélène Metzger, G. Freudenthal (ed.), Corpus, (Paris), 1988, 8/9, 219-235.


"Immunology and literature in the early 20th century: Arrowsmith and the Doctor's Dilemma", Med ical History ,1988, 32, 314-332.


"Ludwik Fleck's roles in society: a case study using Joseph Ben-David's paradigm for the sociology of knowledge", Social Studies of Science, 1988,18, 625-652. (avec G. Freudenthal)


"Ludwik Fleck on the social construction of medical knowledge", Sociology of Health and Ilness, 1988, 10, 2, 133-155.


"Les scientifiques et leurs alliés", L'Année sociologique, 1988, 88, 403-411.


"Biomedical research and the constraints of medical practice: James Bumgardner Murphy and the early discovery of the role of lymphocytes in immune reactions", Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1989, 63, 356-391.

Yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro and the Pasteur Institute Mission: A case study of transfer of science to the perifery", Medical History, 1990, 34, 144-164.


"Medical Critique (Krytyka Lekarska): A journal of medicine and philosophy 1897-1907", Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1990, 15, 653-673.


"Variance of meaning in discovery accounts: The case of contemporary biology", Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 1990, 21, 87-121.


"Od Zygmunta Kramsztyka do Ludwika Fleka", Zagadniena Naukoznawstwa, 1990, 101-102, 189-198.


"La mission de l'Institut Pasteur à Rio de Janeiro 1901-1905",dans, M. Morange (ed.), L'Institut Pasteur: contributions à son histoire, Paris, La Découverte, 1991, pp. 279-295.


"The immunological construction of the self", dans, A. Tauber (ed.), Organism and the Origins of the Self, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991, pp. 43-75.


"From guinea pigs to man: The development of Haffkine's anti-cholera vaccine", Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1992, 47, 270-306.


, "The strength of loose concepts: Boundary concepts, federal experimental strategies and disciplinary growth. The case of immunology", History of Sciences., 1992, 30, 373-396.


"Medicine and Change", dans I. Löwy (ed.), Medicine and Change: Historical and Sociological Studies of Medical Innovation, Editions INSERM-John Libbey, 1993, pp. 1-20.


'Splendori e miserie di uno fatto scientifico', Sociologia della comunicazione, 1993, 9(18), 63-84.


"Innovation and legitimation strategies: The story of the New York Cancer Research Institute", dans I. Löwy, (ed.) Medicine and Change: Historical and Sociological Studies of Medical Innovation, Editions INSERM-John Libbey, 1993, pp. 337-358.


"Testing for a sexually-transmissible disease 1907-1970: The history of the Wassermann reaction", dans V. Berridge and P. Strong (eds.), AIDS and Contemporary History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 74-92.

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"Unscharfe Begriffe und Föderative Experimentalstrategien", dans Die Experimentalisierung des Lebens, H-J. Rheinberger and M. Hagner (eds.), Akademie Verlag, 1993, pp. 188-206.


Experimental systems and clinical practices: Tumor immunology and cancer immunotherapy 1895-1980", Journal of the History of Biology, 1994, 27, 3, 403-435.


"Recent historiography of biomedical research", dans G. Lawrence (ed.) Technologies of Modern Medicine, London, Science Museum, 1994, pp. 99-110 .


"Ludwik Fleck e a presente historia das ciencias", Manguinhos, 1994, 1(1), 7-18.


" Essais therapeutiques et traitement", Sciences Sociales et Santé, 1994, 12(4), 34-39.


"On hybridizations, networks and new disciplines: The Pasteur Institute and the development of microbiology in France", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 1994, 25(5) 655-688.


"Le genre dans l'historie sociale et culturelle des sciences", Annales HSS, 1995, 50(3), 523-529.


"Nothing more to be done: Palliative care versus experimental therapy in advanced cancer", Science in Context, 1995, 8(1), 209-229.


"Les faits scientifiques et leur public: l'histoire de la détection de la syphilis", Revue de Synthèse, 1995, 4e S. N° 1, 27-54.


"La standartization de l'inconnu: Les protocoles thérapeutiques en cancérologie", Technique et Culture, 1995, 25-26, 73-108.


"Impact des innovations thérapeutiques : une approche historique", dans, Conseil National de l'Ordre des Médecins: L'exercise médical dans la societé: hier , aujourd'hui, demain, Paris: Masson, 1995, 37-47.


"Eradication du vecteur contre vaccination: La fundantion Rockefeller et la fièvre jaune au Brésil", dans R. Waast, P. Petitjean (sous la direction de) Les Sciences hors l'Occident ou XXème siècle, Paris: Editions d'Orstom, 1996.


"Les métaphores de l'immunologie: Guerre et paix"; Manguinhos, 1996, 3(2), 7-23.


“ Producing a trustworthy knowldge: early field trials of cholera vaccines ”, dans S. Plotkin and B. Fantini (eds.) , Vaccinia, Vaccination and Vaccinology: Jenner, Pasteur and their Successors, Paris: Elsevier,1996, pp. 121-126.


, "Cancer-the century of the transformed cell",dans J. Krige and D. Pestre (eds.), Science in the Twentieth Century, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Press, 1997, pp. 461-477 .


"What/who should be controlled? Opposition to yellow fever campaigns in Brazil 1900-39", dans A. Cunningham & B. Andrews (eds), Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge, Manchester University Press, 1997, pp. 124-146.


"The legistation of things", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 1997, 28(3), 533-543.


“ Le vaccin anti-cholerique à l’Institut Pasteur(1890-1895) : Haffkine, Metchnikoff, Roux ”, dans A.M. Moulin (sous la direction de) L’aventure de la Vaccination, Paris: Fayard, 1997, pp.193-209.


"Participant observation and the study of biomedical sciences: Some methodological observations", dans T. Soderquist (ed.) Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997, pp. 91-107.


"Epidemiology, immunology and yellow fever: The Rockefeller Foundation in Brazil, 1923-1939, Journal of the History of Biology, 1997, 30, 397-417.


"Essais cliniques des thérapies nouvelles: une approche historique", M/S, 1998, 14, 122-127.


"Imunotherapy of cancer from Coley's toxins to interferons: Molecularization of a therapeutic practice", dans, S. de Chadarevian & H. Kamminga (eds.), Molecularization of Biology and Medicine, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998.


"Visceroctome", dans Robert Bud (ed.), Encyclopedia of Scientific Instruments, Garland, 1998.


"Disciplining cancer: Mice and the practice of genetic purity", dans J.P. Gaudilière et I. Löwy (eds.) The Invisible Industrialist: Manufactures and the Production of Scientific Knowledge, London: MacMillan, 1998, pp. 209-249 (avec J.P. Gaudillière).


 “The terrain in all“, Metchnikoff’s heritage at the Pasteur Institute, from Besredka’s “Antivirus“, to Bardach’s “Orthobiotic serum“ ” dans C. Lawrence and G. Weisz (eds.) Greater Than the Parts: Holism in Medicine 1920-1950, Oxford and London: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 257-282.


"Representaçao e intrevençao em saude publica: virus , mosquitos e esecialistos da Fundaçao Rockefeller no Brasil", Manguinhos; 1999, 5(3), 647-678.


""The prehistory and the history of the uses of Interleukin-2 in cancer therapy", dans J. Lindenman et W.D. Schleuling (eds.) Interferon: The Dawn of Recombinant Protein Drugs, Berlin: Springer, 1999, pp. 33-68.


"Science and gender", Gender and History, 1999, 11(3), 514-527.


"The Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine: Lessons from the past", Analecte Husserliana , 2000, LXIV, 295-308.


"Universalité de la science et conaissances situés", dans , D. Gardey & I. Löwy (sous la direction de) , L'Invention du naturel: Les sciences et la fabrication du masculin et du feminin, Paris: Editions des Archives Contemporaines, 2000, pp., 137-150.


"Trustworthy knowledge and desperate patients: clinical tests for new drugs from cancer to AIDS", dans, M. Lock, A. Young and A. Cambrosio (eds.) , Living and Working with New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 49-81.


Medicine as a social instrument: The Rockefeller Foundation, 1913-45", dans, The Rockefeller Foundation and Biomedical Sciences, Studies in History and Philosphy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2000, 31C., 365-379 (avec P. Zylberman)


""The experimental body", dans R. Cooter & J. Pickstone(eds.), Medicine in the Twentieth Century, London: Harwood Publishers, 2000, pp. 435-449.


"Assistance médicale à la procreation (AMP) et le traitement de la stérilité masculine en France, Sciences Sociales et Santé, 2000, 18(4) 75-104.


« Images of disease between biomedicine and politics », dans I. Löwy &J. Krige (eds.) Science, Public Health and Images of Disease: Europe, 1945-1995, Bruxelles: Editions de la Comission Européenne, 2001, pp.9-27.


« Images of new cancer therapies », dans I. Löwy &J. Krige (eds.) Science, Public Health and Images of Disease: Europe, 1945-1995, Bruxelles: Editions de la Comission Européenne, 2001, pp. 73-88.


« Predispostions, cofactors and images of AIDS », dans J.P. Gaudillière& I. Löwy (eds.),Heredity and Infection :The History of Disease Transmission: London: Routledge, 2001., pp. 327-354.


"The meaning of absent practices: From Ludwik Fleck's views to studies of non-Western science", Science, Technology and Society, 2001, 6(2), 359-373.


"Epidemics and populations", Studies in History and Philosphy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2002, 33, 187-194.


"Fleck Kuhn, and Stent: Loose reflections on the notion of prematurity", dans Ernest B. Hook (ed.) Prematurity in Scientific Discovery : On Resistance and Neglect, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, pp. 295-305.


""La recherche medicale pendant la grande guerre: Les trajectoires contrastés de Charles Richet et d'Alexis Carrel", dans, Le Sabre et l'Eprouvette: L'invention d'une science de guerre 1914-1939, David Aubin et Patrice Bret (eds.), Clamency: Editions Noesis, 2003, pp. 123-134.


" Genese et developpement du genre: les sciences et les origines de la distinction entre sexe et genre", (avec Hélène Rouch), dans Ilana Löwy et Hélene Rouch (eds.) La Distinction entre sexe et genre: Une histoire entre biologie et culture, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003, pp. 6-16.


"Intersexe et transexualités: Les technologies de la medecine et la séparation du sexe biologique du sexe social", dans Ilana Löwy et Hélene Rouch (eds.) La Distinction entre sexe et genre: Une histoire entre biologie et culture, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003, pp. 81-104.


"On guinea pigs, dogs and men: Anaphylaxis and the study of

biological individuality", Studies in History and Philosophy of Medicine and

Biomedical Sciences, 2003, 34, 399-423.


" ‘ Intervenir et representer‘ : campagnes sanitaires et élaboration des

cartographies d'ankylostomiase", History and Philosphy of Life Sciences,

2003, 25, 337-362.


"Pourqui si lentement? Les obstacles a l'égalité des sexes dans la

recherches scientifique", in Genevieve Hatet-Najar (ed.), Les femmes dans

l'histoire du CNRS, Paris: CNRS, 2004, pp.27-38.


"Ludwik Fleck's epistemology of medicine and biomedical sciences", Studies in

History and Philosphy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2004, 33c, 437-445.


" ‘A river that is cutting its own bed‘: The serology os syphilis betwen laboratory,

society and the law", Studies in History and Philosphy of Biological and Biomedical `

Sciences, 2004, 33c,509-524.


"Immunology and AIDS: Growing explanations and developing instruments", in

Norton Wise (ed.) Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science,

Durham: Duke University Press, 2004, pp. 222-247.


"Le risque hérediaire du cancer de sein et d'ovaire dans la clinique: Une approche

comparative, France, Grande Bretagne, Etats Unis, dans,

Claire Julien Reynier, Janine Pierrert et François Eisinger (coordinateurs)

Prédisposition génétique aux cancers: Questions psychologiques et débats de societé,

Paris; John Libbey Eurotext, 2005, pp. 33-44.


" “Measures, instruments, methods and results“, Jozefa Joteyko on social reforms

and physiological measurements", dans Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel et George

Weisz (eds.) Body Count: Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological

Perspective, Montreal; McGill –Queens University Press, 2005, pp. 145-173.


"French horomones; progestins and therapeutic variation in France", Social

Science and Medicine, 2005; 60, 2609-2622. (avec George Weisz)


"Hormone replacement therapy, cancer, controversies and women's health:

historical , epidemiological, biological clinical and advocacy perspectives", Journal

of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2005, 59, 740-748 (avec Nancy Krieger

et e groupe de travail "Hormones sexuels féminins et cancer").


"Procreation assistée: contrôle ou desordre"; Sciences Sociales et Santé, 2005, 23(3)

31-35.


""Science, markets and public health: Contemporary testing for breast cancer

predispositions", dans Virginia Berridge & Kelly Loughin (eds), Medicine, the

Market and the Mass Media: Producing Health in the Twentieth Century,

London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 266-287 (avec Jean Paul Gaudillière).


"Fleck dans son temps, Fleck dans notre temps: Genèse et développement d'une

pensée", Preface de, Ludwik Fleck, Genèse et développement d'un fait

scientifique, (traduction, Nathalie Jas) , Paris , Belles Lettres, 2005, pp. ix-xlii.


"Des mères chimères? Echange materno-fœtal et la transformation de la notion

d'individu" dans Hélene Rouch, Elsa Dorlin et Dominique Fougeroylllas (sous la

direction de) , Le corps entre sexe et genre, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005, pp. 127-142.


"Biotherapies of chronic diseases in the interwar period: from Witte's peptone to

Penicillium extract", Studies in History and Philosphy of Biological and Biomedical `

Sciences, 2005, 36, 675-695.


"Le féminisme a-t-il change la recherche biomédicale? Le Women's Health Movement

et les tranformations de la médecine aux Etats Unis", Travail, Genre et Societés,

Novembre, 2005, 14, 89-108.


"The controversy on the early history of Chagas disease", Parassitologia, 2005, 47,

329-333.


"Médicalisation de la ménopause, mouvements pour la santé des femmes et

controverses sur les thérapies hormonales" (avec Jean Paul Gaudillière,

Nouvelles Questions Féministes, 2006, 25(2), 48-65.


"La fabrication du naturel: L'assistance médicale à la procréation dans une

perspective comparée", Tumultes, 2006, 26, 35-55.