The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France |
 | Author: David S. Barnes
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 305
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0520087720
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.542094409034
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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 diseaseranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later view of a scourge spread by the poorowed 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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A very impressive historical treatment January 20, 1999
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is well-written, persuasive, and very impressive. Highly recommended.
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