Le Mée (René).- Cholera and the question of insanitary housing in Paris (1832-1849) The appearance of cholera in Europe in 1830 sparked a debate about its causes. Did the disease spread by contagion or by infection? Was the solution to isolate the victims or neutralize the centres of infection? The disease's social character became clear in Paris in 1832, when medical considerations were overshadowed by ideological controversy. Public health experts used statistical evidence to show the existence of excess mortality in the working-class districts of the capital, due mainly they argued to poor housing which favoured the development of miasmas. The second epidemic, in 1849, bore out this view. Excess mortality levels were still above average ...
International audienceThe French Revolution did not bring to a close the Ancien Régime as far as the...
Abstract In the 19th century, an urban system of public health was set up. As far as it was identifi...
Le XIXème siècle marque les prémices de l'action sanitaire et sociale de la France. La capitale, Par...
Le Mée (René).- Cholera and the question of insanitary housing in Paris (1832-1849) The appearance o...
«Ungesunde Wohnungen» und Sensibilisierung für Hygiene in Paris 1850-1880 Die Choleraepidemien legit...
«Ungesunde Wohnungen» und Sensibilisierung für Hygiene in Paris 1850-1880 Die Choleraepidemien legit...
Lévy-Vroelant Claire.- The diagnosis of insalubrity and its consequences for the city: Paris 1894-19...
Lévy-Vroelant Claire.- The diagnosis of insalubrity and its consequences for the city: Paris 1894-19...
The assumption of contagion is often employed as an argument for the demarcation of areas considered...
Summary Disease and Civilization explores the scientific and political ramifications of the great ch...
In Normandy, Rouen and Elbeuf were proportionally less affected by the epidemic of cholera in 1832 t...
Cholera terrified and fascinated nineteenth-century Europeans more than any other modern disease. It...
In Normandy, Rouen and Elbeuf were proportionally less affected by the epidemic of cholera in 1832 t...
International audienceThe French Revolution did not bring to a close the Ancien Régime as far as the...
International audienceThe French Revolution did not bring to a close the Ancien Régime as far as the...
International audienceThe French Revolution did not bring to a close the Ancien Régime as far as the...
Abstract In the 19th century, an urban system of public health was set up. As far as it was identifi...
Le XIXème siècle marque les prémices de l'action sanitaire et sociale de la France. La capitale, Par...
Le Mée (René).- Cholera and the question of insanitary housing in Paris (1832-1849) The appearance o...
«Ungesunde Wohnungen» und Sensibilisierung für Hygiene in Paris 1850-1880 Die Choleraepidemien legit...
«Ungesunde Wohnungen» und Sensibilisierung für Hygiene in Paris 1850-1880 Die Choleraepidemien legit...
Lévy-Vroelant Claire.- The diagnosis of insalubrity and its consequences for the city: Paris 1894-19...
Lévy-Vroelant Claire.- The diagnosis of insalubrity and its consequences for the city: Paris 1894-19...
The assumption of contagion is often employed as an argument for the demarcation of areas considered...
Summary Disease and Civilization explores the scientific and political ramifications of the great ch...
In Normandy, Rouen and Elbeuf were proportionally less affected by the epidemic of cholera in 1832 t...
Cholera terrified and fascinated nineteenth-century Europeans more than any other modern disease. It...
In Normandy, Rouen and Elbeuf were proportionally less affected by the epidemic of cholera in 1832 t...
International audienceThe French Revolution did not bring to a close the Ancien Régime as far as the...
International audienceThe French Revolution did not bring to a close the Ancien Régime as far as the...
International audienceThe French Revolution did not bring to a close the Ancien Régime as far as the...
Abstract In the 19th century, an urban system of public health was set up. As far as it was identifi...
Le XIXème siècle marque les prémices de l'action sanitaire et sociale de la France. La capitale, Par...