[From miasmas to microorganisms: hygienic lower-class housing].
By analyzing the influence of early Pasteurian thought on health discourse and practice, this paper discusses the thesis postulating an opposition between pre- and post- Pasteurian hygiene. Focusing on an analysis of the sanitary strategies to control lower-class housing that were proposed by Argentine and Brazilian hygienists, the author identifies the breaks and continuities between classical hygiene and hygiene reorganized by microbiology.
Caponi
Sandra
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Departamento de Saúde Pública, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88040-900, Brasil. sandracaponi@newsite.com.br
D001118:Argentina; D001938:Brazil; D006798:Housing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D008829:Microbiology; D011203:Poverty; D012499:Sanitation; D012923:Social Class