Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs

Name: Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs
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ISBN: 9780801883491

ISBN-10: 0801883490

ISBN-13: 9780801883491

Edition: 2007

Authors: David S. Barnes

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Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors emanated from the sewers of Paris. As the stench lingered, outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an epidemic. Fifteen years later -- when the City of Light was in the grips of another Great Stink -- the landscape of health and disease had changed dramatically. Parisians held their noses and protested, but this time few feared that the odors would spread disease. Historian David 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…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/6/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English




"Not everything that stinks kills" : odors and germs in the streets of Paris, 1880



The sanitarians' 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


Epilogue : the legacy of the twentieth century