Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris

by Jonathan Strauss

Book Overview

The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth 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.

The dead had fallen victim to a sustained reflection on the notions of life and death that emerged from the two new medical fields of biology and hygiene. In large part,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823233804
• ISBN13: 9780823233809
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"