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

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Hovedforfatter: Barnes, David S.
Institution som forfatter: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 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.