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The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs

by Barnes, David S.

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Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press, (Baltimore :) Physical details: xi, 314 p. : ill., maps.

Subject(s): Social medicine -- Europe -- History. | Social medicine -- France -- History. | Diseases -- Europe -- History. | Diseases -- France -- History. | Electronic books.

Year: 2006

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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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