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The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs
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The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs [electronic resource] / David S. Barnes.
ISBN
0801883490 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801883491
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
xi, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 03, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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