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Contagion: Disease, Government, and the 'Social Question' in Nineteenth-Century France

Contagion: Disease, Government, and the 'Social Question' in Nineteenth-Century France

Aisenberg, Andrew R.

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceFrench HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0804733953
ISBN13: 9780804733953
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Jan 1 1999
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.78 Depth: 8.86
Language: English

Contagion was a persistent theme in discussions about urban and industrial social problems in nineteenth-century France. From the cholera epidemic of 1832 to the Public Health Law of 1902, contagious disease was associated with poverty by scientists, government administrators, and politicians. They debated the moral, economic, and social causes of disease and sought new and innovative justifications and techniques for regulating the factors associated with disease. In so doing, French scientific and government elites transformed the efforts to explain and prevent contagion into a new way of thinking about social problems in general.

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