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Autore |
Barnes David S (David Stepanek), <1962-> |
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Titolo |
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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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social medicine - Europe - History |
Social medicine - France - History |
Diseases - Europe - History |
Diseases - France - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 cleaner and healthier republic -- Odors and "infection," 1880 and beyond -- The legacy of the twentieth century. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Ultimately, the attitudes of physicians and the French public were shaped by political struggles between republicans and the clergy, by aggressive efforts to educate and "civilizethe peasantry, and by long-term shifts in the public's ability to tolerate the odor of bodily substances. |
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