44 records matched your query       

Author:

Crawshaw, Jane L. Stevens.

Title:

Plague hospitals : public health for the city in early modern Venice / by Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xiv, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Plague--Venice--Venice--History--16th century.
Plague--Venice--Venice--History--17th century.
Plague--History.--Venice--Venice--History.
Social medicine--Venice--Venice--History.
Public hospitals--Venice--Venice--History--16th century.
Public hospitals--Venice--Venice--History--17th century.
Public health--Venice--Venice--History--16th century.
Public health--Venice--Venice--History--17th century.
Venice (Italy)--Social conditions--16th century.
Venice (Italy)--Social conditions--17th century.
Hospitals, Isolation--history--Italy.
History, 16th Century--Italy.
History, 17th Century--Italy.
Plague--history--Italy.
Plague--therapy--Italy.
Quarantine--history--Italy.
Social Conditions--history--Italy.
Urban Health Services--history--Italy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"From a Distance It Looks Like a Castle" : First Impressions and Architectural Design -- The Sick-Poor -- "Abandon Hope, All You Who Enter Here" : Experiences of the Staff and the Patients' Daily Routine -- Syrups and Secrets : Treating the Plague -- Dying in the Lazaretti -- Returning to the City -- Epilogue.

Series:

The history of medicine in context

ISBN:

0754669580 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9780754669586 (hardback : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)801810251

LCCN:

2012028963

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)