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| Autore principale: | Donato, Maria Pia.
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| Titolo: | Sudden death : medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome / Maria Pia Donato ; translated by Valentina Mazzei. |
| Pubblicazione: | Aldershot : Ashgate, 2014. |
| Descrizione fisica: | VI, 229 p. ; 24 cm |
| Serie: | The history of medicine in context |
| Contiene: | Indice: Acknowledgements. Abbreviations and translator's notes. Introduction. Pt. 1. Sudden death and the physician's role in society: 1. Fears 2. The medico-legal enquiry on sudden death, or: the truth of the body and the public role of physicians 3. From the death to the living: medicine and public health in the early eighteenth century. Pt. 2. Sudden death in medical theory and practice: 4. A new stance on death: the mechanical medicine of Lanci's De subitaneis mortibus (1707) 5. The pathological gaze: the problematic status of post-mortem evidence in early eighteenth-century medicine. Pt. 3. The lost and the saved: sudden death as an ethical and religious issue: 6. Death and the doctors: scientific queries and ethical dilemmas 7. In the hour of death 8. Looking for a heavenly protector: SDaint Andrew Avellino, the Apoplectic Saint. Epilogue: Was there ever a sudden death epidemic in Rome? Index |
| ISBN: | 9781472418739 |
| Altri autori: | Mazzei, Valentina.
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| Discipline: | Medicina--Studi specifici. Religione e scienza--Studi. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVIII. |
| Collocazione: | LS 19800 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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