Plague hospitals [electronic resource] : public health for the city in early modern Venice / Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw.
Series: History of medicine in contextPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2012.Description: xiv, 290 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780754669586 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 9780754669586
- 9780754697510 (e-book)
- Plague -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century
- Plague -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century
- Plague -- Treatment -- Italy -- Venice -- History
- Social medicine -- Italy -- Venice -- History
- Public hospitals -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century
- Public hospitals -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century
- Public health -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century
- Public health -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century
- Venice (Italy) -- Social conditions -- 16th century
- Venice (Italy) -- Social conditions -- 17th century
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- RC178.I92 V463 2012eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.