The Making of a Social Disease (eBook)

Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France

David S. Barnes (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
305 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91517-6 (ISBN)

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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.


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 Eur

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Pneumologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 19th Century France • class division • consumption • consumptive woman • deadly disease • dirty habits • Disease • Epidemics • epidemiology • France • French history • french perceptions • historical perspective • history of medicine • History of Science • Illness • infectious disease • Medical • Medical Ethics • Medical Science • moral meanings • power structures • Public Health • romantic image • scientific responses • Social changes • Social Class • Society • Tuberculosis • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91517-8 / 0520915178
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91517-6 / 9780520915176