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Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance
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Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague
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Hardcover, 340 pages
Published
January 1st 2010
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published November 5th 2009)
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Though, "Cultures of Plague", focuses largely on the 1570's, it is the best book I've read about the Black Death so far. More to say soon.
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Instead of highlighting the fourteenth century, Cohn examines the sudden changes in medical literature about the plague at the end of the sixteenth century. This new focus alone makes the book pretty interesting, even though the beginning (and especially the vocabulary about the plague) is sometimes confusing. He did seem to retract his earlier statement about the plague being actually multiple illnesses, not just the yersinia pests, but he does not say this explicitly.
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