The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs

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 -- Towa...

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1. Verfasser: Barnes, David S. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore, My. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2006
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Zusammenfassung: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.
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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XI, 314 S.
Ill., Kt.
24 cm
ISBN:0801883490
0-8018-8349-0