Donato, Maria Pia. <br/><br/>
Sudden death :  medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome / 
Maria Pia Donato, C.N.R.S. Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Paris, France and University of Cagliari, Italy ; translated by Valentina Mazzei. 
 - London :  Ashgate pub. Ltd.,  2014. 
 - vi, 229 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - The history of medicine in context .
<br/><br/> Translation of: Morti improvvise / Maria Pia Donato. Roma : Carocci, c2010. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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". 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781472418739 (hbk) 1472418735 (hbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014012045 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Lancisi, Giovanni Maria, 1654-1720.  De subitaneis mortibus. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sudden death--History--18th century.<br/>Death--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History of doctrines--18th century.<br/>Medicine--Religious aspects--History--18th century.<br/>Medicine--History--Italy--Rome--18th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RB150.S84  / D6613 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>618.92/026