Narrow Search
Last searches

Results for *

Displaying results 1 to 3 of 3.

  1. Cultures of plague
    medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
    Author: Cohn, Samuel
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    Sources and perspectives : a quantitative reckoning -- Signs and symptoms -- The impetus from Sicily -- The successo della peste -- The "liberation" of the city and plague poetry -- Plague disputes, challenges of the "universals" -- Plague and... more

     

    Sources and perspectives : a quantitative reckoning -- Signs and symptoms -- The impetus from Sicily -- The successo della peste -- The "liberation" of the city and plague poetry -- Plague disputes, challenges of the "universals" -- Plague and poverty -- Towards a new public health consciousness in medicine -- Plague psychology Includes bibliographical references and index 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

     

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191722530
    Other identifier:
    Series: Oxford scholarship online
    Subjects: Public health; Epidemics; Medicine, Medieval; Plague; History, Early Modern 1451-1600; History, Medieval; Public Health; Disease Outbreaks; Plague
    Scope: Online-Ressource (XIV, 342 S.), Ill., graph. Darst
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

  2. Cultures of plague
    medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    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... more

    Access:
    Resolving-System (lizenzpflichtig)
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    No inter-library loan
    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
    No inter-library loan
    Technische Universität Chemnitz, Universitätsbibliothek
    No inter-library loan
    Hochschule für Musik 'Carl Maria von Weber', Hochschulbibliothek
    No inter-library loan
    Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
    No inter-library loan
    Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Bibliothek 'Georgius Agricola'
    No inter-library loan
    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    No inter-library loan
    Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig, Hochschulbibliothek
    No inter-library loan
    Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
    No inter-library loan
    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
    No inter-library loan
    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
    No inter-library loan
    Hochschule Mittweida (FH), Hochschulbibliothek
    No inter-library loan
    Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
    No inter-library loan
    Hochschule Zittau / Görlitz, Hochschulbibliothek
    No inter-library loan
    Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau, Bibliothek
    E-Book Oxford EBS
    No inter-library loan

     

    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.

     

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191722530
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Epidemics; Plague; Public health
    Scope: 1 online resource (xiv, 342 p.), ill., map.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record

  3. Cultures of plague
    medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    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... more

    Access:
    Resolving-System (lizenzpflichtig)
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    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.

     

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191722530
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Epidemics; Plague; Public health
    Scope: 1 online resource (xiv, 342 p.), ill., map.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record