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

Author/creator Cohn, Samuel Kline
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Descriptionxiv, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009026994
ISBN9780199574025 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0199574022 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780199605095
ISBN0199605092
Standard identifier# 40017505049

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