Disease and Civilization: The Cholera in Paris, 1832 by François Delaporte
Disease and Civilization: The Cholera in Paris, 1832

François Delaporte

Disease and Civilization: The Cholera in Paris, 1832

François Delaporte with Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)

250 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Disease and Civilization explores the scientific and political ramifications of thegreat cholera epidemic of 1832, showing how its course and its conceptualization were affected bythe social power relations of the time. The epidemic which claimed ...

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