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Andrew R. Aisenberg - Contagion - 9780804733953 - V9780804733953
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Contagion

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Description for Contagion Hardback. Drawing on intellectual and social history as well as the work of Michel Foucault, the author investigates the intersection of scientific, political, and professional interests that informed perceptions and understandings of contagion in 19th-century France. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 465.

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.

Drawing on the approaches of intellectual and ... Read more

All in all, the book not only offers a more nuanced explanation of how scientific knowledge about disease was produced but also reveals the emergence of science as a form of state social power that significantly extended the scope of government in Republican France.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804733953
SKU
V9780804733953
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Andrew R. Aisenberg
Andrew R. Aisenberg is Assistant Professor of History at Scripps College, Claremont.

Reviews for Contagion
"A highly thought-provoking contribution, which will surely establish Aisenberg as one of the most creative younger scholars working on the social and cultural history of modern France."—Journal of Modern History

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