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- Author: David S Barnes
- Publisher: University of California Press
- ISBN-10: 0520087720
- ISBN-13: 9780520087729
- Format: 15.9 x 23.7 x 2.7 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: David S Barnes
- Publisher: University of California Press
- ISBN-10: 0520087720
- ISBN-13: 9780520087729
- Format: 15.9 x 23.7 x 2.7 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
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.
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