David Barnes
David Barnes is Associate Professor of the History and Sociology of Science and Director of the Health and Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the history of infectious disease, and the political and cultural dimensions of public health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written two books exploring these themes in nineteenth-century France: The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France (Univ. of Calif. Press, 1995) and The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2006). He is currently writing a history of Philadelphia's Lazaretto (1801-1895), the oldest intact quarantine facility in the Western Hemisphere and the sixth oldest in the world.