Disease and Civilization: The Cholera in Paris, 1832

by François Delaporte

Book Overview

Disease and Civilization explores the scientific and political ramifications of the great cholera epidemic of 1832, showing how its course and its conceptualization were affected by the social power relations of the time. The epidemic which claimed the lives of 18,000 people in Paris alone, was a watershed in the history of medicine: In France, it shook the complacency of a medical establishment that thought it had the means to prevent any onslaught...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026254055X
• ISBN13: 9780262540551
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher