The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs /
Barnes, David S.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Social medicine
Social medicine
Diseases
Diseases