Barnes, David S.

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.
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Social medicine--History.--Europe
Social medicine--History.--France
Diseases--History.--Europe
Diseases--History.--France


Electronic books.

RA418.3.E85 / B37 2006eb

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