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Author:

Barnes, David S.

Title:

The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs / David S. Barnes.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xi, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-306) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780801883491
9780801883491 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801883490 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61458168

LCCN:

2005023385

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)