Post-Mortem
Michael Burns, 18 November 1993
Death and the After-Life in Modern France
by Thomas Kselman.
Princeton, 413 pp., £40, March 1993,0 691 00889 2 Show More
by Thomas Kselman.
Princeton, 413 pp., £40, March 1993,
“... new ranks of social scientists calculated the consequences of a rapidly changing French society. Thomas Kselman, in this superb new book, notes the paradox: hard facts about deadly disorders both heightened fears and raised hopes that solutions would follow. Government officials tackled problems of public hygiene, doctors formed professional ... ”