In the early twentieth century, scientists at the Pasteur Institute and its colonial affiliates developed a historically specific form of bacteriological technoscience, which abstracted the human–microbe relationship from its environmental and social context, and created a model for public health governance that operated at the scale of the empire, rather than at the level of individual colonies or regions. Using a case study of tuberculosis management, this article argues that the success of the Pastorian model relied on its technopolitical vision of a universal model of managing human–microbe relations, while, in reality, exploiting precisely those fissures created by the uneven political and scientific landscape of the colonial and scientific world in which it operated. Pastorian bacteriology helped imperial administrators to imagine a globe-spanning, standardized empire, while restricting public health governance to technological innovations, rather than a proposal for social hygiene that would have expanded labour and associational rights for subject populations.

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帕斯托里亚帝国的形成：1890-1940 年法国殖民主义和国际科学中的结核病和细菌学技术政治

20 世纪初，巴斯德研究所及其殖民地附属机构的科学家们开发了一种具有历史意义的细菌学技术科学，将人类与微生物的关系从环境和社会背景中抽象出来，并创建了一种在帝国的规模，而不是单个殖民地或地区的水平。本文通过结核病管理的案例研究认为，帕斯托瑞模式的成功依赖于其管理人类与微生物关系的普遍模式的技术政治愿景，而实际上，正是利用了由不平衡的政治和科学造成的裂痕。它运作的殖民和科学世界的景观。