The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs
By: David S. Barnes.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Social medicine -- Europe -- History.; Social medicine -- France -- History.; Diseases -- Europe -- History.; Diseases -- France -- History.; Public Health -- history -- France.; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice -- France.; Communicable Disease Control -- history -- France.; Sanitation -- history -- France.; Bacteriology -- history -- France.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Not everything that stinks kills" : odors and germs on the streets of Paris, 1880; title: The santiarian's legacy, or how health became public; title: Taxonomies of transmission : local etiologies and the equivocal triumph of germ theory; title: Putting germ theory into practice; title: Toward a cleaner and healthier republic; title: Odors and "infection," 1880 and beyond; title: The legacy of the twentieth century.