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The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs [electronic resource] / David S. Barnes.

By: Barnes, David S.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006Description: xi, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Social medicine -- Europe -- History | Social medicine -- France -- History | Diseases -- Europe -- History | Diseases -- France -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 306.4/61 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.