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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnes, David S.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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Table of 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.