Sudden death medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Farnham
Ashgate
2014
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| Schriftenreihe: | <<The>> history of medicine in context
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Tag hinzufügen | Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Sudden death and the physician's role in society -- Fears -- The medico-legal enquiry on sudden death, or, the truth of the body -- And the public role of physicians -- From the dead to the living: medicine and public health in the early eighteenth century -- Sudden death in medical theory and practice -- A new stance on death: the mechanical medicine of Lancisi's De subitaneis mortibus -- The pathological gaze. The problematic status of post-mortem evidence -- In early eighteenth-century medicine -- The lost and the saved. Sudden death as an ethical and religious issue -- Death and the doctors. Scientific queries and ethical dilemmas -- In the hour of death -- Looking for a heavenly protector: Saint Andrew Avellino, the "apoplectic saint" |
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| ISBN: | 9781472418739 |