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

Clara Uzcanga y David Teira . (2023) What evidence for a cholera vaccine? Jaime Ferrán’s submissions to the Prix Bréant. Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences

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Título What evidence for a cholera vaccine? Jaime Ferrán’s submissions to the Prix Bréant
Autor(es) Clara Uzcanga
David Teira
Materia(s) Filosofía
Abstract This 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.
Palabras clave Ferrán
cholera
vaccine
data
Bréant
Académie des Sciences
Fecha 2023-01-01
Identificador bibliuned:501158
Nombre de la revista Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences
Publicado en la Revista Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences
Versión de la publicación acceptedVersion
Tipo de recurso Article
Derechos de acceso y licencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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Collection: Departamento Lógica, Historia, Filosofía de la Ciencia (UNED). Artículos
 
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Creado: Wed, 24 May 2023, 19:36:55 CET by David Teira