The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs / David S. Barnes.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Barnes, David S.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 314 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

• 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.