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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barnes, David S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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.