Human remains : medicine, death, and desire in nineteenth-century Paris

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Human remains : medicine, death, and desire in nineteenth-century Paris

Title remainder

medicine, death, and desire in nineteenth-century Paris

Statement of responsibility

Jonathan Strauss

Creator

• Strauss, Jonathan

Author

• Strauss, Jonathan

Subject

• Dead -- Social aspects | History -- 19th century
• Death
• Death -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
• Electronic books
• France -- Paris
• HISTORY -- Europe | France
• History
• Human body -- Social aspects
• Human body -- Social aspects -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
• Medicine
• Medicine -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
• Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Public health
• Public health -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
• Social conditions
• 1800-1899
• Dead -- Social aspects

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late 18th century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries were removed from urban space, and corpses started to be viewed as terrifyingly noxious substances. Working across a broad range of disciplines this book seeks to understand the meaning of the dead and their role in creating one of the most important cities of the contemporary world

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• Forms of living

Cataloging source

E7B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

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Forms of living