Pestilential complexities
Subtitle: understanding medieval plague
By: edited by Vivian Nutton.
Contributors: Nutton, Vivian.; Wellcome Trust (London, England). Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.
Series: Medical history -- no. 27
Publisher: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780854841165
Subjects: Plague -- History -- Congresses; Black Death -- Congresses; Plague -- history; Disease Outbreaks -- history
Genres: Congresses.
Description: These essays were originally delivered as papers at a conference held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine it UCL, in 2006. The aim of the conference was not to settle the question of the identity of the plague, but to bring together many many of the leading experts in the field in order to clarify the crucial issues dividing the supporters of the theory of Yersinia pestis from those advocating a variety of explanations.
Notes: "These essays were originally delivered as papers at a conference held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL in 2006" -- p. vii

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vivian Nutton; title: Vivian Nutton -- Ann G. Carmichael -- The; title: Vivian Nutton -- Ann G. Carmichael -- The -- Kay Peter Jankrift; title: Vivian Nutton -- Ann G. Carmichael -- The -- Kay Peter Jankrift -- Lars Walløe; title: Vivian Nutton -- Ann G. Carmichael -- The -- Kay Peter Jankrift -- Lars Walløe -- Samuel K. Cohn -- The; title: Vivian Nutton -- Ann G. Carmichael -- The -- Kay Peter Jankrift -- Lars Walløe -- Samuel K. Cohn -- The -- Daniel Antoine; title: Vivian Nutton-- Ann G. Carmichael -- The-- Kay Peter Jankrift-- Lars Walløe-- Samuel K. Cohn -- The-- Daniel Antoine-- lisabeth Carniel.