Cohn, Samuel Kline. Cultures of plague : medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

Folger bibliographic ID: 235459
Folger call number: RA650.6.I8 C64 2010
Folger holdings ID: 289154

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

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

Extended title: Cultures of plague : medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr

Epidemics Plague Medicine, Medieval Public health

author: Cohn, Samuel Kline