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

The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 500
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ISBN-10 : 9780801888731
ISBN-13 : 0801888735
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs by : David S. Barnes

The scientific and social history surrounding the 1880 incident of a foul odor in Paris and the development of public health culture that followed. 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. “A well-developed study in medically related social history, it tells an intriguing tale and prompts us to ask how our own cultural contexts affect our views and actions regarding environmental and infectious scourges here and now.” —New England Journal of Medicine “Both a captivating story and a sophisticated historical study. Kudos to Barnes for this valuable and insightful book that both physicians and historians will enjoy.” —Journal of the American Medical Association

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

The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780801883491
ISBN-13 : 0801883490
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs by : David S. Barnes

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 civilizethe peasantry, and by long-term shifts in the public's ability to tolerate the odor of bodily substances.--Donald Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "American Historical Review"

Smoking under the Tsars

Smoking under the Tsars
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 403
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ISBN-10 : 9781501722073
ISBN-13 : 1501722077
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Smoking under the Tsars by : Tricia Starks

Approaching tobacco from the perspective of users, producers, and objectors, Smoking under the Tsars provides an unparalleled view of Russia’s early adoption of smoking. Tricia Starks introduces us to the addictive, nicotine-soaked Russian version of the cigarette—the papirosa—and the sensory, medical, social, cultural, and gendered consequences of this unique style of tobacco use. Starting with the papirosa’s introduction in the nineteenth century and its foundation as a cultural and imperial construct, Starks situates the cigarette’s emergence as a mass-use product of revolutionary potential. She discusses the papirosa as a moral and medical problem, tracks the ways in which it was marketed as a liberating object, and concludes that it has become a point of increasing conflict for users, reformers, and purveyors. The heavily illustrated Smoking under the Tsars taps into bountiful material in newspapers, industry publications, etiquette manuals, propaganda posters, popular literature, memoirs, cartoons, poetry, and advertising. Starks frames her history within the latest scholarship in imperial and early Soviet history and public health, anthropology and addiction studies. The result is an ambitious social and cultural exploration of the interaction of institutions, ideas, practice, policy, consumption, identity, and the body. Starks has reconstructed how Russian smokers experienced, understood, and presented their habit in all its biological, psychological, social, and sensory inflections, providing the reader with incredible images and a unique application of anthropology and sensory analysis to the experience of tobacco dependency.

Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health

Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 1717
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ISBN-10 : 9780198810131
ISBN-13 : 019881013X
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health by : Roger Detels

Sixth edition of the hugely successful, internationally recognised textbook on global public health and epidemiology, with 3 volumes comprehensively covering the scope, methods, and practice of the discipline

A Cultural History of Modern Science in China

A Cultural History of Modern Science in China
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0674030427
ISBN-13 : 9780674030428
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis A Cultural History of Modern Science in China by : Benjamin A. Elman

Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman's masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit impact on late imperial China, circa 1600-1800, and the Protestant era in early modern China from the 1840s to 1900 in a concise and accessible form ideal for the classroom. This coherent account of the emergence of modern science in China places that emergence in historical context for both general students of modern science and specialists of China.

Nineteen eighty-four

Nineteen eighty-four
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547423454
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Synopsis Nineteen eighty-four by : George Orwell

This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.

The Last Taboo

The Last Taboo
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9781136532924
ISBN-13 : 1136532927
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Taboo by : Maggie Black

Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk aboutwater-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in short, we don‘t mention the shit. A century and a half ago, a long, hot summer reduced the Thames flowing past the UK Houses of Parliament to aGreat Stink thereby inducing MPs to legislate sanitary reform. Today, another sanitary reformation is needed, one that manages to spread cheaper and simpler systems to people everywhere. In the byways of the developing world, much is quietly happening on the excretory frontier. In 2008, the International Year of Sanitation, the authors bring this awkward subject to a wider audience than the world of international filth usually commands. They seek the elimination of theGreat Distaste so that people without political clout or economic muscle can claim their right to a dignified and hygienic place togo. Published with UNICEF

The Company of Strangers

The Company of Strangers
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 0691118213
ISBN-13 : 9780691118215
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis The Company of Strangers by : Paul Seabright

This is a wonderful book, very well written and accessible to a wide audience.

The World of William Clissold

The World of William Clissold
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015046788553
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Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The World of William Clissold by : Herbert George Wells

Bourbon for Breakfast

Bourbon for Breakfast
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Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 9781610164917
ISBN-13 : 1610164911
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Bourbon for Breakfast by : Jeffrey Albert Tucker

"A compilation of many ... shorter writings ... of his twin loves, libertarian political philosophy and Austrian economics."--Page 4 of cover.