{"product_id":"cultures-of-plague-medical-thinking-at-the-end-of-the-renaissance-hardcover","title":"Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamuel K. Cohn  Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCultures of Plague\u003c\/em\u003e opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis study of plague imprints, from academic medical treatises to plague poetry, highlights the most feared and devastating epidemic of the sixteenth-century, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. From erudite definitions, remote causes, cures and recipes, physicians now directed their plague writings to the prince and discovered their most 'valiant remedies' in public health: strict segregation of the healthy and ill, cleaning streets and latrines, addressing the long-term causes of plague-poverty. Those outside the medical profession joined the chorus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians, along with those outside the profession, questioned the foundations of Galenic and Renaissance medicine, even the role of God. Assaults on medieval and Renaissance medicine did not need to await the Protestant-Paracelsian alliance of seventeenth-century in northern Europe. Instead, creative forces planted by the pandemic of 1575-8 sowed seeds of doubt and unveiled new concerns and ideas within that supposedly most conservative form of medical writing, the plague tract. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRelying on health board statistics and dramatized with eyewitness descriptions of bizarre happenings, human misery, and suffering, these writers created the structure for plague classics of the eighteenth century, and by tracking the contagion's complex and crooked paths, they anticipated trends of nineteenth-century epidemiology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamuel K. Cohn Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e has specialized in the Italian Renaissance, the history of disease, and popular revolt in late medieval Europe. He is the author of eleven books, the most recent of which is \u003cem\u003eLust for Liberty\u003c\/em\u003e (Harvard University Press, 2006) and had published essays in the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePast \u0026amp; Present\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEconomic History Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMedical History\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJournal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLes Annales\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eStudia Storici\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 340\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 18, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47623567180035,"sku":"9780199574025","price":139.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/eVN6Z3ZxZXJkVVdwRWZLdytyOHJ3UT09.webp?v=1768319583","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-gb\/products\/cultures-of-plague-medical-thinking-at-the-end-of-the-renaissance-hardcover","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}