The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs [electronic resource] /
David S. Barnes.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- xi, 314 p. : ill., maps.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Social medicine--History.--Europe Social medicine--History.--France Diseases--History.--Europe Diseases--History.--France