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The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs /
Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors emanated from the sewers of Paris. As the stench lingered, outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an epidemic. Fifteen years later - when the City of Light was in the grips of another Great Stink - the landscape of health and disease had c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.