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What evidence for a cholera vaccine? Jaime Ferrán’s submissions to the Prix Bréant

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dc.contributor.authorUzcanga Lacabe, Clara
dc.contributor.authorTeira Serrano, David
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-21T12:53:22Z
dc.date.available2024-05-21T12:53:22Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-01
dc.description.abstractThis article analyses how the French Academy of Sciences assessed Jaime Ferrán’s cholera vaccine submitted for the Prix Bréant in the 1880s. Ferrán, a Spanish independent physician, discovered the treatment in 1884 and tried it on thousands of patients during the cholera outbreak in Valencia the following year. His evaluation sparked a controversy in Spain and abroad on the vaccine’s efficacy. The Bréant jury did not see any evidence for it in Ferrán’s submission, a decision usually interpreted in terms of French scientific nationalism (or simple chauvinism): an outsider from the scientific periphery could not be awarded the Bréant. Drawing on the archival records of the award, we suggest that Ferrán failed instead to provide data that the Academy could consider unbiased, according to the contemporary standards for data presentation. We will illustrate these standards at work in the assessment of another submission from Spain, by Philipp Hauser, who received the Bréant for the thoroughness of his statistical endeavour.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/19442
dc.journal.titleJournal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Filosofía
dc.relation.departmentLógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject.keywordsFerrán
dc.subject.keywordscholera
dc.subject.keywordsvaccine
dc.subject.keywordsdata
dc.subject.keywordsBréant
dc.subject.keywordsAcadémie des Sciences
dc.titleWhat evidence for a cholera vaccine? Jaime Ferrán’s submissions to the Prix Bréantes
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