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