Plague hospitals
Subtitle: public health for the city in early modern Venice
By: by Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw
Series: The history of medicine in context
Published: 2012
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754669586; 9780754697510
Subjects: Plague; Treatment; Social conditions; Public hospitals; Social medicine; Public health; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "From a Distance It Looks Like a Castle" : First Impressions and Architectural Design; title: The Sick-Poor; title: "Abandon Hope, All You Who Enter Here" : Experiences of the Staff and the Patients' Daily Routine; title: Syrups and Secrets : Treating the Plague; title: Dying in the Lazaretti; title: Returning to the City; title: Epilogue.