Fighting the Plague In Seventeenth-Century Italy Pdf

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Release: 1981-02-15
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0299083446
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Fighting the Plague In Seventeenth-Century Italy pdf
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After the great pandemic of 1348, the plague became endemic in Europe, affecting life at every level for more than three hundred years. In attempting to fight the dread enemy, the North Italian states had developed, by the early sixteenth century, a highly sophisticated system of public health. Special permanent magistracies combining legislative and executive powers were established to administer all public health matters.
    In this volume, Carlo M. Cipolla throws new light on the subject, utilizing newly uncovered and significant archival material.
    In the first essay, the author analyzes the complex set of interrelationships that existed between theory and practice in Renaissance epidemiology. The significance of this essay goes beyond the history of public health and extends to the larger history of science.
    In the second essay, Cipolla studies a case in which health matters became the object of intense diplomatic activity. In that instance, fully sove Download Fighting the Plague In Seventeenth-Century Italy for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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