Medicine Before The Plague
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Author |
: Michael Rogers McVaugh |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2002-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521524547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521524544 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medicine Before the Plague by : Michael Rogers McVaugh
An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.
Author |
: John Aberth |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 499 |
Release |
: 2021-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442223912 |
ISBN-13 |
: 144222391X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Doctoring the Black Death by : John Aberth
The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of Europe’s population, died during the first outbreak alone from 1347 to 1353. Plague then returned fifteen more times through to the end of the medieval period in 1500, posing the greatest challenge to physicians ever recorded in the history of the medical profession. This engrossing book provides the only comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death over time. Leading historian John Aberth has translated many unknown plague treatises from nine different languages that vividly illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge. He includes doctors’ remarkable personal anecdotes, showing how their battles to combat the disease (which often afflicted them personally) and the scale and scope of the plague led many to question ancient authorities. Dispelling many myths and misconceptions about medicine during the Middle Ages, Aberth shows that plague doctors formulated a unique and far-reaching response as they began to treat plague as a poison, a conception that had far-reaching implications, both in terms of medical treatment and social and cultural responses to the disease in society as a whole.
Author |
: Ian Dawson |
Publisher |
: Enchanted Lion Books |
Total Pages |
: 70 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1592700373 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781592700370 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medicine in the Middle Ages by : Ian Dawson
Learn about how medicine was practiced long ago.
Author |
: David Herlihy |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 1997-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674744233 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674744233 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by : David Herlihy
In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. 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.
Author |
: Fiona Macdonald |
Publisher |
: Gareth Stevens |
Total Pages |
: 52 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0836858980 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780836858983 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Plague and Medicine in the Middle Ages by : Fiona Macdonald
Describes the illnesses, plagues, diagnoses, and treatments during the Middle Ages.
Author |
: Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2016-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317080282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317080289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plague Hospitals by : Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw
Developed throughout early modern Europe, lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease, in particular the prevention and treatment of plague. The lazaretti served as isolation hospitals, quarantine centres, convalescent homes, cemeteries, and depots for the disinfection or destruction of infected goods. The first permanent example of this institution was established in Venice in 1423 and between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries tens of thousands of patients passed through the doors. Founded on lagoon islands, the lazaretti tell us about the relationship between the city and its natural environment. The plague hospitals also illustrate the way in which medical structures in Venice intersected with those of piety and poor relief and provided a model for public health which was influential across Europe. This is the first detailed study of how these plague hospitals functioned, where they were situated, who worked there, what it was like to stay there, and how many people survived. Comparisons are made between the Venetian lazaretti and similar institutions in Padua, Verona and other Italian and European cities. Centred on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, during which time there were both serious plague outbreaks in Europe and periods of relative calm, the book explores what the lazaretti can tell us about early modern medicine and society and makes a significant contribution to both Venetian history and our understanding of public health in early modern Europe, engaging with ideas of infection and isolation, charity and cure, dirt, disease and death.
Author |
: Samuel Kline Cohn |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 357 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199574025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199574022 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultures of Plague by : Samuel Kline Cohn
This title highlights the impact that the plague epidemic in Italy between 1575 and 1578 had on the medical writers and practitioners of the time. He asserts that these writers anticipated modern epidemiology and created the structure for plague classics of the next century.
Author |
: John Aberth |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2011-01-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442207967 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442207965 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plagues in World History by : John Aberth
Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has had upon human history but also the many ways in which people have been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural attitudes toward them. The author argues that the ability of humans to alter disease, even without the modern wonders of antibiotic drugs and other medical treatments, is an even more crucial lesson to learn now that AIDS, swine flu, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and other seemingly incurable illnesses have raged worldwide. Aberth's comparative analysis of how different societies have responded in the past to disease illuminates what cultural approaches have been and may continue to be most effective in combating the plagues of today.
Author |
: Luis García Ballester |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521431018 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521431019 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death by : Luis García Ballester
Essays on the practical aspects of medieval European medicine.
Author |
: Roger Kenneth French |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2003-02-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521007615 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521007610 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medicine Before Science by : Roger Kenneth French
An introductory history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth century.