: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Maria Pia Donato, C.N.R.S. Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Paris, France and University of Cagliari, Italy ; translated by Valentina Mazzei.
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; Burlington, VT
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: Ashgate
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, [2014]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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vi, 229 p.
SERIES
Series Title
The history of medicine in context
GENERAL NOTES
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Translation of: Morti improvvise / Maria Pia Donato. Roma : Carocci, c2010.
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CONTENTS NOTE
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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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UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Morti improvvise.
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English
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Lancisi, Giovanni Maria,1654-1720., De subitaneis mortibus.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Sudden death-- History-- 18th century.
Death-- Religious aspects-- Catholic Church-- History of doctrines-- 18th century.
Medicine-- Religious aspects-- History-- 18th century.
Medicine-- Italy-- Rome-- History-- 18th century.
مرگ ناگهانی-- تاریخ-- قرن ۱۸ م.
.مرگ -- جنبههای مذهبی -- کاتولیک (مذهب) --تاریخ عقاید-- قرن ۱۸ م