The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs

Acknowledgments --

Introduction --

1. "Not everything that stinks kills" : odors and germs on the streets of Paris, 1880 --

2. The santiarian's legacy, or how health became public --

3. Taxonomies of transmission : local etiologies and the equivocal triumph of germ theory --

4. Putting germ theory into practice --

5. Toward a cleaner and healthier republic --

6. Odors and "infection," 1880 and beyond --

Epilogue : The legacy of the twentieth century --

Notes --

Index.