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100 1 $aDonato, Maria Pia.
240 10 $aMorti improvvise.$lEnglish
245 10 $aSudden death :$bmedicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome /$cby Maria Pia Donato ; translated by Valentina Mazzei.
260 $aFarnham [England] ;$aBurlington, Vt. :$bAshgate,$c©2014.
300 $a1 online resource
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490 1 $aThe history of medicine in context
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSudden 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."
588 0 $aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 24, 2014).
520 8 $aIn 1705-1706, an 'epidemic' of mysterious deaths terrorized Rome. Pope Clement XI's physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, was ordered to perform a series of dissections to discover the cause of the epidemic, which hindered confession, thus threatening the victim's salvation. The book that Lancisi subsequently published.$bIn 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an 'epidemic' of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as a mala mors because it threatened the victim's salvation by hindering repentance and last confession. Special masses were celebrated to implore God's clemency and Pope Clement XI ordered his personal physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, to perform a series of dissections in the university anatomical theatre in order to discover the 'true causes' of the deadly events. It was the first investigation of this kind ever to take place for a condition which was not contagious. The book that Lancisi published on this topic, De subitaneis mortibus ('On Sudden Deaths', 1707), is one of the earliest modern scientific investigations of death; it was not only an accomplished example of mechanical philosophy as applied to the life sciences in eighteenth-century Europe, but also heralded a new pathological anatomy (traditionally associated with Giambattista Morgagni). Moreover, Lancisi's tract and the whole affair of the sudden deaths in Rome marked a significant break in the traditional attitude towards dying, introducing a more active approach that would later develop into the practice of resuscitation medicine. Sudden Death explores how a new scientific interpretation of death and a new attitude towards dying first came into being, breaking free from the Hippocratic tradition, which regarded death as the obvious limit of physician's capacity, and leading the way to a belief in the 'conquest of death' by medicine which remains in force to this day.
600 10 $aLancisi, Giovanni Maria,$d1654-1720.$tDe subitaneis mortibus.
630 07 $aDe subitaneis mortibus (Lancisi, Giovanni Maria)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01363180
650 0 $aSudden death$xHistory$y18th century.
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650 0 $aSudden death.
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650 6 $aMédecine$xAspect religieux$xHistoire$y18e siècle.
650 6 $aMédecine$zItalie$zRome$xHistoire$y18e siècle.
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776 08 $iPrint version:$aDonato, Maria Pia.$tSudden Death : Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome.$dFarnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ©2014$z9781472418739
830 0 $aHistory of medicine in context.
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