Cultures of plague
Subtitle: medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
By: Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780199574025
Subjects: Epidemics -- Italy -- History; Plague -- Italy -- History; Medicine, Medieval -- Italy; Public health -- Italy; Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Italy; Plague -- history -- Italy; History, Early Modern 1451-1600 -- Italy; History, Medieval -- Italy; Public Health -- history -- Italy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sources and perspectives : a quantitative reckoning; title: Signs and symptoms; title: The impetus from Sicily; title: The successo della peste; title: The 'liberation' of the city and plague poetry; title: Plague disputes, challenges of the 'universals'; title: Plague and poverty; title: Towards a new public health consciousness in medicine; title: Plague psychology.