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Disease and Civilization

Disease and Civilization PDF Author: François Delaporte
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262540551
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Disease and Civilization explores the scientific and political ramifications of the great cholera epidemic of 1832, showing how its course and its conceptualization were affected by the social power relations of the time. The epidemic which claimed the lives of 18,000 people in Paris alone, was a watershed in the history of medicine: In France, it shook the complacency of a medical establishment that thought it had the means to prevent any onslaught and led to a revolution in the concept of public health.Francois Delaporte teaches at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico.