Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw

Plague Hospitals (eBook, PDF)

Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease. An in-depth study of the Venetian lazaretti in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book asks what these hospitals can tell us about early modern medicine and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317080299
• Artikelnr.: 49366016

Autorenporträt

Jane L Stevens Crawshaw is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in History at Oxford Brookes University. This is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: 'From a distance it looks like a castle': First Impressions and Architectural Design
2: The Sick-Poor
3: 'Abandon hope, all you who enter here': Experiences of Staff and the Patients' Daily Routine
4: Syrups and Secrets: Treating the Plague
5: Dying in the Lazaretti
6: Returning to the City
Conclusion
Epilogue