| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 342 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Sources and Perspectives: A Quantitative Reckoning; 2. Signs and Symptoms; 3. The Impetus from Sicily; 4. The Successo della Peste; 5. The 'Liberation' of the City and Plague Poetry; 6. Plague Disputes, Challenges of the 'Universals'; 7. Plague and Poverty; 8. Towards a New Public Health Consciousness in Medicine; 9. Plague Psychology; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. This study of plague imprints from academic medical treatises to plague poetry highlights the most feared and devastating epidemic of the sixteenth-century, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-328) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Epidemics -- Italy -- History
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Plague -- Italy -- History
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Medicine, Medieval -- Italy
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Public health -- Italy -- History
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Medicine, Medieval.
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Disease Outbreaks -- history
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Plague -- history
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History, Early Modern 1451-1600
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History, Medieval
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Public Health -- history
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Epidemics
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Medicine, Medieval
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Plague
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Public health
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| SUBJECT |
Italy |
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191572395 |
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019157239X |
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0199574022 |
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9780199574025 |
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