Eight. Dirty Cities, Smelly Bodies: City Odors after Germ Theory

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: What’s That Smell? 1
6. One. The Smells of Sick Cities 21
7. Two. Navigating by Nose: Common Sense and Responses to Urban Odors 53
8. Three. Smells like Home: Odors in the Domestic Environment 78
9. Four. The Stenches of Civil War 106
10. Five. Smelling Committees and Authority over City Air 138
11. Six. Learning to Smell Again: Managing the Air between the Civil War and Germ Theory 170
12. Seven. Visualizing Vapors and Seeing Smells 198
13. Eight. Dirty Cities, Smelly Bodies: City Odors after Germ Theory 233
14. Conclusion: If You Smell Something, Say Something 259
15. Notes 267
16. Selected Bibliography 305
17. Index 323