History of Hygiene in Modern France

This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as ''modernization'' -a process that remade culture and society in France in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hygiene, Steven Zdatny convincingly contends, was that change. He reflects on how the development of hygiene: changed the way people thought about and treated their bodies; put an en...