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The Making of a Social Disease - Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France
Tuberculosis In Nineteenth-Century France
- Editore:
University of California Press
- EAN:
9780520087729
- ISBN:
0520087720
- Pagine:
- 320
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione The Making of a Social Disease - Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France
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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