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The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs / David S. Barnes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes, David S. (David Stepanek), 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine--Europe--History.
- Social medicine.
- Social medicine--France--History.
- Diseases--Europe--History.
- Diseases.
- Diseases--France--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ultimately, the attitudes of physicians and the French public were shaped by political struggles between republicans and the clergy, by aggressive efforts to educate and "civilizethe peasantry, and by long-term shifts in the public's ability to tolerate the odor of bodily substances.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- "Not everything that stinks kills" : odors and germs on the streets of Paris, 1880
- The santiarian's legacy, or how health became public
- Taxonomies of transmission : local etiologies and the equivocal triumph of germ theory
- Putting germ theory into practice
- Toward a cleaner and healthier republic
- Odors and "infection," 1880 and beyond
- The legacy of the twentieth century.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8873-5
- OCLC:
- 232160417
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