MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aRB150.S84$bD6613 2014
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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 /$cMaria Pia Donato, C.N.R.S. Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Paris, France and University of Cagliari, Italy ; translated by Valentina Mazzei.
264 1 $aFarnham, Surrey ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$c[2014]
300 $avi, 229 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aThe history of medicine in context
500 $aTranslation of: Morti improvvise / Maria Pia Donato. Roma : Carocci, c2010.
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".
650 0 $aSudden death$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aDeath$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church$xHistory of doctrines$y18th century.
650 0 $aMedicine$xReligious aspects$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aMedicine$zItaly$zRome$xHistory$y18th century.
600 10 $aLancisi, Giovanni Maria,$d1654-1720.$tDe subitaneis mortibus.