Medicine From The Black Death To The French Disease
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Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease
Author | : Roger French,Jon Arrizabalaga,Andrew Cunningham,Luis Garcia-Ballester |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2019-07-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780429515019 |
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Published in 1998, covering the period from the triumphant economic revival of Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, this book offers an examination of the state of contemporary medicine and the subsequent transplantation of European medicine worldwide.
The Great Pox
Author | : Jon Arrizabalaga,John Henderson,Roger Kenneth French |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300069340 |
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A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement and ultimately an agonising death. The authors analyse the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital of 'incurables' established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how the disease threw accepted medical theory and practice into confusion and provoked public disputations among university teachers. And at the most practical level they reveal the plight of its victims at all levels of society, from ecclesiastical lords to the poor who begged in the streets. Examining a range of contexts from princely courts and republics to university faculties, confraternities and hospitals, the authors argue powerfully for a historical understanding of the Great Pox based on contemporary perceptions rather than on a retrospective diagnosis of what later generations came to know as 'syphilis'.
Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History
Author | : G. Rousseau,M. Gill,D. Haycock,M. Herwig |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2003-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230524323 |
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Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated. Writers of diverse types have been as active in constructing these meanings as doctors, yet it is only recently that literary traditions have been recognized as a rich archive for these interpretations. These essays focus on the methodological hurdles encountered in retrieving these interpretations, called 'framing' by the authors. Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History aims to explain what has been said about these interpretations and to compare their value.
The Great Pox
Author | : Jon Arrizabalaga,John Henderson,Roger K. French |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1959-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300082991 |
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One hundred and fifty years after the Black Death killed a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox -- commonly known as the French disease -- brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement, and ultimately an agonizing death. In this new study, three experts explore the impact of the new plague and society's reaction to its challenge. Using a range of contemporary sources, from the archives of charitable and sanitary institutions that coped with the sick to the medical tracts of those who sought to cure it, they provide the first detailed account of the experience of the disease across Renaissance Italy as well as in France and Germany. The authors analyze the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital for "incurables" established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how it challenged accepted medical theory and practice and provoked public disputations among university teachers. And at the most practical level, they reveal the plight of its victims at all levels of society, from ecclesiastical lords to the diseased poor who begged in the streets. Examining a range of contexts from princely courts and republics to university faculties, confraternities, and hospitals, the authors argue powerfully for a historical understanding of the Great Pox based on contemporary perceptions rather than a retrospective diagnosis of what later generations came to know as "syphilis".
Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death
Author | : Luis García Ballester |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0521431018 |
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Essays on the practical aspects of medieval European medicine.
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.
The Complete History of the Black Death
Author | : Ole Jørgen Benedictow |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 1059 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781783275168 |
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Completely revised and updated for this new edition, Benedictow's acclaimed study remains the definitive account of the Black Death and its impact on history. The first edition of The Black Death collected and analysed the many local studies on the disease published in a variety of languages and examined a range of scholarly papers. The medical and epidemiological characteristics of the disease, its geographical origin, its spread across Asia Minor, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and the mortality in the countries and regions for which there are satisfactory studies, are clearly presented and thoroughly discussed. The pattern, pace and seasonality of spread revealed through close scrutiny of these studies exactly reflect current medical work and standard studies on the epidemiology of bubonic plague. Benedictow's findings made it clear that the true mortality rate was far higher than had been previously thought. In the light of those findings, the discussion in the last part of the book showing the Black Death as a turning point in history takes on a new significance. OLE J. BENEDICTOW is Professor of History at the University of Oslo.
Disease and History
Author | : Frederick Fox Cartwright |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Diseases |
ISBN | : MINN:31951001047253H |
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Cites specific instances in which disease affecting powerful individuals and societies has influenced the course of history.