The making of a social disease; : tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France /
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| Author / Creator: | Barnes, David S. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995. |
| Description: | xiv, 305 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1750059 |
Table of Contents:
- Chronology: Tuberculosis in France, 1819-1919
- 1. Social Anxiety, Social Disease, and the Question of Contagion
- 2. Redemptive Suffering and the Patron Saint of Tuberculosis
- 3. "Guerre au bacille!" Germ Theory and Fear of Contagion in the War on Tuberculosis
- 4. Interiors: Housing and the Casier sanitaire in the War on Tuberculosis
- 5. Morality and Mortality: Alcoholism, Syphilis, and the "Rural Exodus" in the War on Tuberculosis
- 6. Le Havre, Tuberculosis Capital of the Nineteenth Century
- 7. Dissenting Voices: Left-Wing Perspectives on Tuberculosis in the Belle Epoque.
