TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donato,Maria Pia
TI  - Sudden death: medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome 
T2  - The history of medicine in context
SN  - 9781472418739 (hbk)
AV  - RB150.S84 D6613 2014
U1  - 618.92/026 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Ashgate pub. Ltd.
KW  - Lancisi, Giovanni Maria,
KW  - Sudden death
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Death
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Italy
KW  - Rome
N1  - Translation of: Morti improvvise / Maria Pia Donato. Roma : Carocci, c2010; 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"
ER  -