Maria Pia Donato

Sudden Death

Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1705-1706, an 'epidemic' of mysterious deaths terrorized Rome. Pope Clement XI's physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, was ordered to perform a series of dissections to discover the cause of the epidemic, which hindered confession, thus threatening the victim's salvation. The book that Lancisi subsequently published, De subitaneis mortibus ('On Sudden Deaths', 1707), is one of the earliest modern scientific investigations of death. Sudden Death explores how a new scientific interpretation of death first came into being, and led the way to a belief in the 'conquest of death' by medicine which remains to this day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781472418739
• ISBN-10: 1472418735
• Artikelnr.: 44799147

Autorenporträt

Maria Pia Donato is an associate professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and chargé de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut d'Histoire moderne et contemporaine of Paris, France. She is the author of Accademie romane. Una storia sociale, 1671-1824 (Naples 2000) and numerous essays on the political, social and cultural life of modern Rome, the history of medicine, and the history of science.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I Sudden Death and the Physician's Role in Society:
Fears; The medico-legal enquiry on sudden death, or: the truth of the body
and the public role of physicians; From the dead to the living: medicine
and public health in the early 18th century. Part II Sudden Death in
Medical Theory and Practice: A new stance on death: the mechanical medicine
of Lancisi's De subitaneis mortibus (1707); The pathological gaze: the
problematic status of post-mortem evidence in early 18th-century medicine.
Part III The Lost and the Saved: Sudden Death as an Ethical and Religious
Issue: Death and the doctors: scientific queries and ethical dilemmas; In
the hour of death; Looking for a heavenly protector: Saint Andrew Avellino,
the 'apoplectic saint'. Epilogue: was there ever a sudden death 'epidemic'
in Rome?; Index.