Chronology: tuberculosis in France, 1819-1919 -- Social anxiety, social disease, and the question of contagion -- Redemptive suffering and the patron saint of tuberculosis -- "Guerre au bacille!" germ theory and fear of contagion in the war on tuberculosis -- Interiors: housing and the casier sanitaire in the war on tuberculosis -- Morality and mortality: alcoholism, syphilis, and the "Rural exodus" in the war on tuberculosis -- Le Havre, tuberculosis capital of the nineteenth century -- Dissenting voices: left-wing perspectives on tuberculosis in the belle epoque
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-297) and index
