Disease and Civilization

The Cholera in Paris, 1832
Neuauflage 1989
ISBN: 978-0-262-54055-1
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: MIT Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delaporte, Francois

Delaporte, François

Weitere Mitwirkende

Goldhammer, Arthur

Rabinow, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Über Autor(innen)

Delaporte, François
François Delaporte is a Research Associate at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale in Paris. He is the author of Disease and Civilization and The History of Yellow Fever.

Rabinow, Paul
Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent books include Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (with Hubert Dreyfus) and The Foucault Reader.

Yorick Wilks is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute of Language, Speech, and Hearing at the University of Sheffield, UK.