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

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History of medicine

Winkel

Wordery

Merk

Johns hopkins university press

The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs : Johns Hopkins University Press : 9781421425658 : 30 Jan 2018 : 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 c

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