Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Booker, John (1941-....)
Titre(s) : Forty days [Texte imprimé] : quarantine and the traveller, c. 1700-1900 / John Booker
Publication : Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis group, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-215 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : History of medicine in context
Lien à la collection : The history of medicine in context
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 - c. 1900 provides a timely reminder
that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up
to forty days in a lazaretto to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing.
Quarantine was performed in virtual prisons ranging from mud huts in the Danube basin
to a converted fort on Malta, evoking every emotion from hatred and hostility through
to resignation and even contentment. Drawing on the diaries and journals of some 300
men and women of many nationalities over more than two centuries, the author describes
the inadequate accommodation, poor food and crushing boredom experienced by detainees.
The book also draws attention to comradeship, sickness, and death in detention, and
Casanova's unique ability to do what he did best even in the lazaretto of Ancona.
Other well-known detainees included Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain and Sir Walter
Scott. Lavishly illustrated, the work includes a gazetteer of forty-nine lazarettos
in Europe and Asia Minor, with inmates' comments on each. This book will appeal to
all those interested in the history of medicine and the history of travel"
Sujet(s) : Quarantaine -- Histoire
Maladies infectieuses -- Prévention -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
614.460 9 (23e éd.) = Quarantaine (médecine publique préventive) - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781032050348. - ISBN 1032050349. - ISBN 9781032050355. - ISBN 1032050357. -
ISBN 9781003195733
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47048061d
Notice n° :
FRBNF47048061
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Reasons, regimes and routes ; Quarantine : the social leveller ; First impressions
; Passing the time ; Reckoning and departure.
