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The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs
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Title
The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs / David S. Barnes.
ISBN
0801883490 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.
Physical Description
xi, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-306) and index.
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Public Health - history - France.
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice - France.
Communicable Disease Control - history - France.
Sanitation - history - France.
Bacteriology - history - France.
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