UID:
edoccha_9958119890802883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) :
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illustrations, map
Edition:
Reprint 2020
ISBN:
0-520-91517-8
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0-585-28291-9
Content:
In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease--ranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later view of a scourge spread by the poor--owed more to the power structures of nineteenth-century society than to medical science. By 1900, the war against tuberculosis had become a war against the dirty habits of the working class. Lucid and original, Barnes's study broadens our understanding of how and why societies assign moral meanings to deadly diseases.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Chronology: Tuberculosis in France, 1819-1919 --
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Introduction --
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1. Social Anxiety, Social Disease, and the Question of Contagion --
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2. Redemptive Suffering and the Patron Saint of Tuberculosis --
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3. "Guerre au bacille!" Germ Theory and Fear of Contagion in the War on Tuberculosis --
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4. Interiors: Housing and the Casier sanitaire in the War on Tuberculosis --
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5. Morality and Mortality: Alcoholism, Syphilis, and the "Rural Exodus" in the War on Tuberculosis --
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6. Le Havre, Tuberculosis Capital of the Nineteenth Century --
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7. Dissenting Voices: Left-Wing Perspectives on Tuberculosis in the Belle Epoque --
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Conclusion --
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Notes --
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Selected Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-08772-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520915176
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