Medicine Before The Plague
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Medicine Before the Plague
Author | : Michael Rogers McVaugh,Michael R. McVaugh |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2002-07-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0521524547 |
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An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.
Medieval Medicine and the Plague
Author | : Lynne Elliott |
Publsiher | : Crabtree Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 077871358X |
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Learn the history of medieval disease and how medical treatments were worse than the disease.
The Plague and Medicine in the Middle Ages
Author | : Fiona Macdonald |
Publsiher | : Gareth Stevens |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0836858980 |
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Describes the illnesses, plagues, diagnoses, and treatments during the Middle Ages.
Doctoring the Black Death
Author | : John Aberth |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781442223912 |
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This engrossing book provides a comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death. John Aberth has translated plague treatises that illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge, including doctors’ personal anecdotes as they desperately struggled to understand a deadly new disease.
Cultures of Plague
Author | : Cohn Jr. |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191615887 |
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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 unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. From erudite definitions, remote causes, cures and recipes, physicians now directed their plague writings to the prince and discovered their most 'valiant remedies' in public health: strict segregation of the healthy and ill, cleaning streets and latrines, addressing the long-term causes of plague-poverty. Those outside the medical profession joined the chorus. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians along with those outside the profession questioned the foundations of Galenic and Renaissance medicine, even the role of God. Assaults on medieval and Renaissance medicine did not need to await the Protestant-Paracelsian alliance of seventeenth-century in northern Europe. Instead, creative forces planted by the pandemic of 1575-8 sowed seeds of doubt and unveiled new concerns and ideas within that supposedly most conservative form of medical writing, the plague tract. Relying on health board statistics and dramatized with eyewitness descriptions of bizarre happenings, human misery, and suffering, these writers created the structure for plague classics of the eighteenth century, and by tracking the contagion's complex and crooked paths, they anticipated trends of nineteenth-century epidemiology.
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West
Author | : David Herlihy |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1997-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674744233 |
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Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism. This book, which displays a distinguished scholar's masterly synthesis of diverse materials, reveals that the Black Death can be considered the cornerstone of the transformation of Europe.
Medicine Before Science
Author | : Roger Kenneth French |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2003-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521007615 |
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An introductory history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth century.
Expelling the Plague
Author | : Zlata Blazina Tomic,Vesna Blazina |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780773597129 |
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A vibrant city-state on the Adriatic sea, Dubrovnik, also known as Ragusa, was a hub for the international trade between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. As a result, the city suffered frequent outbreaks of plague. Through a comprehensive analysis of these epidemics in Dubrovnik, Expelling the Plague explores the increasingly sophisticated plague control regulations that were adopted by the city and implemented by its health officials. In 1377, Dubrovnik became the first city in the world to develop and implement quarantine legislation, and in 1390 it established the earliest recorded permanent Health Office. The city’s preoccupation with plague control and the powers granted to its Health Office led to a rich archival record chronicling the city’s experience of plague, its attempts to safeguard public health, and the social effects of its practices of quarantine, prosecution, and punishment. These sources form the foundation of the authors' analysis, in particular the manuscript Libro deli Signori Chazamorbi, 1500-30, a rare health record of the 1526-27 calamitous plague epidemic. Teeming with real people across the spectrum, including gravediggers, laundresses, and plague survivors, it contains the testimonies collected during trial proceedings conducted by health officials against violators of public health regulations. Outlining the contributions of Dubrovnik in conceiving and establishing early public health measures in Europe, Expelling the Plague reveals how health concerns of the past greatly resemble contemporary anxieties about battling epidemics such as SARS, avian flu, and the Ebola virus.