Cultures of plague
Subtitle: medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
By: Samuel K. Cohn Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
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
Description: This title highlights the impact that the plague epidemic in Italy between 1575 and 1578 had on the medical writers and practitioners of the time. He asserts that these writers anticipated modern epidemiology and created the structure for plague classics of the next century.
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.