Making of a Social Disease Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France

Name: Making of a Social Disease Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France
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ISBN: 9780520087729

ISBN-10: 0520087720

ISBN-13: 9780520087729

Edition: 1996

Authors: David S. Barnes

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In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease--ranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later view of a scourge spread by the poor--owed more to the power structures of nineteenth-century society than to medical science. By 1900, the war against tuberculosis had become a war against the dirty habits of the working class. Lucid and original, Barnes's study broadens our understanding of how and why…

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List price: $73.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/13/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 305
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Chronology: Tuberculosis in France, 1819-1919


Introduction



Social Anxiety, Social Disease, and the Question of Contagion



Redemptive Suffering and the Patron Saint of Tuberculosis



"Guerre au bacille!" Germ Theory and Fear of Contagion in the War on Tuberculosis



Interiors: Housing and the Casier sanitaire in the War on Tuberculosis



Morality and Mortality: Alcoholism, Syphilis, and the "Rural Exodus" in the War on Tuberculosis



Le Havre, Tuberculosis Capital of the Nineteenth Century



Dissenting Voices: Left-Wing Perspectives on Tuberculosis in the Belle Epoque


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index