Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1459

ALEXANDRE JEAN BAPTISTE PARENT-DUCHâTELET (1790-1836) De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris. J.-B. Baillière; New York: H. Baillière 1857 3rd ed. Vol. I: xxiii, 731 pp., front. (port.), fold. chart, fold. diagr., fold. map; Vol. II: 892 pp. 20.8 cm.

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With the rise of modern industry in early nineteenth-century Europe, public and occupational health became an issue of significance. In France, the physician Parent-Duchâtelet, as a member of the Council for Public Sanitation, undertook a number of studies which led toward the betterment of working conditions for large segments of society, most notably sewer workers and tobacco handlers. His detailed study of prostitution in Paris, however, is the work for which he is best known today. The treatise covers virtually every aspect of prostitution, with emphasis on the life and health of the prostitute. The study was instrumental in organizing the government registration and supervision of brothels.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1607 (1st ed., 1836); Osler 3615 (1st ed.); Waller 7195 (1837 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.