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The Making of a Social Disease - Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover, Reissue)
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The Making of a Social Disease - Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover, Reissue)
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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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