Human remains : medicine, death, and desire in nineteenth-century Paris /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Forms of living.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
