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An edition of The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs (2006)

The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs

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"Historian David S. Barnes examines the birth of a new microbe-centered science of public health during the 1880s and 1890s, when the germ theory of disease burst into public consciousness. Tracing a series of developments in French science, medicine, politics, and culture, Barnes reveals how the science and practice of public health changed during the heyday of the bacteriological revolution." "This study sheds light on the scientific and social factors that continue to influence the public's lingering uncertainty over how disease can - and cannot - be spread."--Jacket.

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Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
English
Pages
314

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Subjects

Bacteriology, Communicable Disease Control, Diseases, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, History, Public health, Sanitation, Social medicine, Public health, france, Communicable diseases, Bacteriology, history, Public health, europe

Places

Europe, France
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The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs
2006, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Baltimore

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.4/61
Library of Congress
RA418.3.E85 B37 2006, RA418.3.E85B37

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
314

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Open Library
OL3407580M
ISBN 10
0801883490
LCCN
2005023385
OCLC/WorldCat
61458168
Library Thing
695716
Goodreads
302067

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