188 pages hardback with dustjacket, an excellent copy of the first edition, one or two faint pencil marks, with plates

Cristofano and the Plague: A Study in the History of Public Health in the Age of Galileo

History

Cipolla, Carlo M.

Europe

University of California Press

Emergence of Industrial Societies: Pt. 1 (Economic History of Europe)

Fontana

The Technology of Man: A Visual History

Science & Math

Birdsall, Derek

Technology

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

The Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (The Fontana economic history of Europe)

Business & Money

Economics

Barnes&Noble

Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 402 pages; Physical description. : xi, 402 p : ill, maps ; 23 cm. Subject: Europe - Economic conditions - 20th century.

The Twentieth century (The Fontana economic history of Europe)

The Economic History of World Population (Pelican Books)

Penguin??Books

201p paperback, figures in text, bibliography, index, excellent copy

European culture and overseas expansion (Pelican books)

Penguin

After the great pandemic of 1348, the plague became endemic in Europe, affecting life at every level for more than three hundred years. In attempting to fight the dread enemy, the North Italian states had developed, by the early sixteenth century, a highly sophisticated system of public health. Special permanent magistracies combining legislative and executive powers were established to administer all public health matters. In this volume, Carlo M. Cipolla throws new light on the subject, utilizing newly uncovered and significant archival material. In the first essay, the author analyzes the complex set of interrelationships that existed between theory and practice in Renaissance epidemiology. The significance of this essay goes beyond the history of public health and extends to the larger history of science. In the second essay, Cipolla studies a case in which health matters became the object of intense diplomatic activity. In that instance, fully sovereign states envisaged interstate controls and relinquished discretionary powers for the sake of the “common health.” Although the concerted effort was short-lived, it does represent an attempt at international health cooperation that was unmatched for another two centuries, until the first International Sanitary Conference, held in Paris in 1851. In the third essay, unusually detailed statistical documentation allows the author to analyze in detail the demographic, economic, and social aspects of the fight against the plague in a Tuscan city—Pistoia—during the epidemic of 1630–31. A richly documented appendix, forming an essay in itself, illustrates present knowledge of the clinical, pathological, and epidemiological features of the plague in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe.

Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Curti Lecture Series)

Medical Books

Medicine

University of Wisconsin Press

After the great pandemic of 1348, the plague became endemic in Europe, affecting life at every level for more than three hundred years. In attempting to fight the dread enemy, the North Italian states had developed, by the early sixteenth century, a highly sophisticated system of public health. Special permanent magistracies combining legislative and executive powers were established to administer all public health matters. In this volume, Carlo M. Cipolla throws new light on the subject, utilizing newly uncovered and significant archival material. In the first essay, the author analyzes the complex set of interrelationships that existed between theory and practice in Renaissance epidemiology. The significance of this essay goes beyond the history of public health and extends to the larger history of science. In the second essay, Cipolla studies a case in which health matters became the object of intense diplomatic activity. In that instance, fully sovereign states envisaged interstate controls and relinquished discretionary powers for the sake of the "common health." Although the concerted effort was short-lived, it does represent an attempt at international health cooperation that was unmatched for another two centuries, until the first International Sanitary Conference, held in Paris in 1851. In the third essay, unusually detailed statistical documentation allows the author to analyze in detail the demographic, economic, and social aspects of the fight against the plague in a Tuscan city-Pistoia-during the epidemic of 1630-31. A richly documented appendix, forming an essay in itself, illustrates present knowledge of the clinical, pathological, and epidemiological features of the plague in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe.

Fighting the Plague In Seventeenth-Century Italy

In his new book the renowned historian Carlo Cipolla explores the themes of health, medicine and the origins of infectious disease in pre-industrial Italy. Using the papers of the Magistrato alla Sanita, the Florence Health Magistracy, covering the first thirty years of the seventeenth century, he recreates the ecological and medical environment of the Florentine countryside. As few historians can, he lets the drama unfold, and allows the participants to speak for themselves in their own vivid language. The book opens with an analysis of the Sanitation Office in Florence, the Uffia de Sanita, of its regional inspectors and their grasp of epidemiological principles. It reveals the transformation of the Office from a temporary administrative body into a permanent institution with preventative aims. And it documents, through their own verbatim accounts, the endeavours of intelligent and motivated doctors and medical inspectors to combat disease within a superstitious culture and an environment of dirt. The book shows how tantalisingly close was contemporary medical practice, focussed on the physical elements, humours and pungent exhalations, to the real sources of infection--dirt, rubbish and sanitary effluents. Cipolla neither patronises nor romanticises the past and its inhabitants. He shows how, despite limitations in knowledge, the painful process of seventeenth-century discovery provided the basis of modern medical insight.

Miasmas and Disease: Public Health and the Environment in the Pre-Industrial Age

Yale University Press

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