The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs / David S. Barn...
The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs / David S. Barn...
The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs / David S. Barnes.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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2006.
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N306.461/ 50
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English
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p. cm.
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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 cleane...
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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Maryland
Date Published
2006.
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"Historian David S. Barnes examines the birth of a new microbe-centered science of public health during the 1880s and 1890s, when the germ theory of disease burst into public consciousness. Tracing a series of developments in French science, medicine, politics, and culture, Barnes reveals how the science and practice of public health changed during...
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The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs / David S. Barnes.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N306.461/ 50
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74VKv3qBGMzX
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0801883490 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801883491 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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306.461
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991021531389702626
