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The making of a social disease : tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barnes, David S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1995.
Colección:University of California Press e-editions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chronology: tuberculosis in France, 1819-1919
  • Social anxiety, social disease, and the question of contagion
  • Redemptive suffering and the patron saint of tuberculosis
  • "Guerre au bacille!" germ theory and fear of contagion in the war on tuberculosis
  • Interiors: housing and the casier sanitaire in the war on tuberculosis
  • Morality and mortality: alcoholism, syphilis, and the "Rural exodus" in the war on tuberculosis
  • Le Havre, tuberculosis capital of the nineteenth century
  • Dissenting voices: left-wing perspectives on tuberculosis in the belle epoque.