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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.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: The history of medicine in contextPublication details: London : Ashgate pub. Ltd., 2014.Description: vi, 229 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781472418739 (hbk)
  • 1472418735 (hbk)
Uniform titles:
  • Morti improvvise. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 618.92/026 23
LOC classification:
  • RB150.S84 D6613 2014
Contents:
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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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".

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