Name: The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs
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Author: Barnes, David S.
ISBN: 9781421425658

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

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Physical Book

Author

David S. Barnes

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Language

English

Pages

328

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781421425658

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

Explores the scientific and social factors that continue to influence the public's lingering uncertainty over how disease can--and cannot--be spread.Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors enveloped large portions 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 public conversation about 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 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 the heyday of the Bacteriological Revolution.Despite its many innovations, however, the new science of germs did not entirely sweep away the older sanitarian view of public health. The longstanding conviction that disease could be traced to filthy people, places, and substances remained strong, even as it was translated into the language of bacteriology. 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 civilize the peasantry, and by long-term shifts in the public's ability to tolerate the odor of bodily substances.

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