Plague hospitals: public health for the city in early modern venice
Auteur :
Crawshaw, Jane L. Stevens
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780754669586
Date de publication :
28 déc. 2012
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
793 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.