Cultures of plague medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
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
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2010, c2010
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | 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 |
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Physical Description: | xiv, 342 p. ill., map |
ISBN: | 9780191722530 |