Lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease. An in-depth study of the Venetian lazaretti in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book asks what these hospitals can tell us about early modern medicine and society.
Publisher: Ashgate (November 01, 2012)
Format: EPUB
Page count: 338 pages
File size: 21.1 MB
Protection: DRM
Language: English