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| View Larger Image | The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France
by David S. Barnes
| | List Price: | $70.00 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 335917 | | Studio: | University of California Press | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 305 | | Publication Date: | January 13, 1995 | | Publisher: | University of California Press |
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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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A very impressive historical treatment 
This book is well-written, persuasive, and very impressive. Highly recommended.
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