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Auteur(s) : Jones, Lori
Titre(s) : Patterns of plague [Texte imprimé] : changing ideas about plague in England and France, 1348-1750 / Lori Jones
Publication : Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's university press, copyright
2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-382 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : McGill-Queen's/Associated medical services studies in the history of medicine, health,
and society ; 59
Lien à la collection : McGill-Queen's/Hannah institute studies in the history of medicine, health and society
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [319]-368. Index
"For centuries, recurrent plague outbreaks took a grim toll on populations across
Europe and Asia. While medical interventions and treatments did not change significantly
from the fourteenth century to the eighteenth century, understandings of where and
how plague originated did. Through an innovative reading of medical advice literature
produced in England and France, Patterns of Plague explores these changing perceptions
across four centuries. When plague appeared in the Mediterranean region in 1348, physicians
believed the epidemic's timing and spread could be explained logically and the disease
could be successfully treated. This confidence resulted in the widespread and long-term
circulation of plague tracts, which described the causes and signs of the disease,
offered advice for preventing infection, and recommended therapies in a largely consistent
style. What, where, and especially who was blamed for plague outbreaks changed considerably,
however, as political, religious, economic, intellectual, medical, and even publication
circumstances evolved. Patterns of Plague sheds light on what was consistent about
plague thinking and what was idiosyncratic to particular places and times, revealing
the many factors that influence how people understand and respond to epidemic disease."
Issued also in electronic format.
Sujet(s) : Peste -- Angleterre (GB) -- Histoire
Sciences de la santé -- Documentation -- Angleterre (GB) -- Historiographie
Peste -- France -- Histoire
Sciences de la santé -- Documentation -- France -- Historiographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
616.923 2009 (23e éd.) = Peste (médecine) - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780228010807 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47083456j
Notice n° :
FRBNF47083456
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Creating the Plague Tract ; Producing the Plague Tract: From Author to Stationer,
from Manuscript to Print ; Setting Plague in Time: From Never Before to Now, from
the Past to the Present ; Seeing Plague in Space: From Elsewhere to Everywhere, from
Here to There ; Imagining the Oriental Plague: From Us to Them, from Fearsome Disease
to Turkish Threat.
