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Author | : Zlata Blazina Tomic |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0773597123 |
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A vibrant city-state on the Adriatic sea, Dubrovnik, also known as Ragusa, was a hub for the international trade between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. As a result, the city suffered frequent outbreaks of plague. Through a comprehensive analysis of these epidemics in Dubrovnik, Expelling the Plague explores the increasingly sophisticated plague control regulations that were adopted by the city and implemented by its health officials. In 1377, Dubrovnik became the first city in the world to develop and implement quarantine legislation, and in 1390 it established the earliest recorded permanent Health Office. The city’s preoccupation with plague control and the powers granted to its Health Office led to a rich archival record chronicling the city’s experience of plague, its attempts to safeguard public health, and the social effects of its practices of quarantine, prosecution, and punishment. These sources form the foundation of the authors' analysis, in particular the manuscript Libro deli Signori Chazamorbi, 1500-30, a rare health record of the 1526-27 calamitous plague epidemic. Teeming with real people across the spectrum, including gravediggers, laundresses, and plague survivors, it contains the testimonies collected during trial proceedings conducted by health officials against violators of public health regulations. Outlining the contributions of Dubrovnik in conceiving and establishing early public health measures in Europe, Expelling the Plague reveals how health concerns of the past greatly resemble contemporary anxieties about battling epidemics such as SARS, avian flu, and the Ebola virus.
Author | : Nükhet Varlik |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2015-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107013380 |
Download Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.
Author | : Ruth MacKay |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108498205 |
Download Life in a Time of Pestilence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of the plague in late sixteenth-century Spain.
Author | : Frank Herbert |
Publisher | : Tor Books |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2007-10-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429989645 |
Download The White Plague Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From Science fiction grandmaster Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune universe, comes this novel of bioterrorism and gendercide. What if women were an endangered species? It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent new disease expressly designed to target only women. As fully half of the human race dies off at a frightening pace and life on Earth faces extinction, panicked people and governments struggle to cope with the global crisis. Infected areas are quarantined or burned to the ground. The few surviving women are locked away in hidden reserves, while frantic doctors and scientists race to find a cure. Anarchy and violence consume the planet. The plague is the work of a solitary individual who calls himself the Madman. As government security forces feverishly hunt for the renegade scientist, he wanders incognito through a world that will never be the same. Society, religion, and morality are all irrevocably transformed by the White Plague. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Ole Jørgen Benedictow |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843832143 |
Download The Black Death, 1346-1353 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study of the Black Death considers the nature of the disease, its origin, spread, mortality and its impact on history.
Author | : Matthew Mead |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1665 |
Genre | : Dissenters, Religious |
ISBN | : |
Download Solomon's Prescription for the Removal of the Pestilence, Or, The Discovery of the Plague of Our Hearts, in Order to the Healing of that in Our Flesh Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ruifu Yang |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2016-10-08 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9402408908 |
Download Yersinia pestis: Retrospective and Perspective Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book addresses nearly every aspect of Y. pestis, approaching it from a new perspective. Topics covered include the history, epidemiology, physiology, ecology, genome, evolution, pathogenesis, host-pathogen interaction, big-data-driven research, vaccines, clinical aspects and future research trends. For centuries, scientists have sought to determine where Y. pestis, the most well-known bacterium and one that has caused a number of high-mortality epidemics throughout human history, comes from, what it is and how it causes the disease. This book works to answer these questions with the help of cutting-edge research results. It not only describes the history of plagues, but also stresses plagues’ effects on human civilization and explores the interaction of Y. pestis with hosts, vectors and the environment to reveal the evolution and pathogenesis. The book offers a valuable guide for researchers and graduate students studying Y. pestis, and will also benefit researchers from other fields, such as infectious diseases, other pathogens and system biology, sharing key insights into bacterial pathogen studies.
Author | : Norman F. Cantor |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476797749 |
Download In the Wake of the Plague Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.
Author | : Janet Starkey |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004362134 |
Download The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad, Janet Starkey examines the lives and works of Scots working in the mid eighteenth century with the Levant Company in Aleppo, then within the Ottoman Empire; and those working with the East India Company in India, especially in the fields of natural history, medicine, ethnography and the collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts. The focus is on brothers from Edinburgh: Alexander Russell MD FRS, Patrick Russell MD FRS, Claud Russell and William Russell FRS. By examining a wide range of modern interpretations, Starkey argues that the Scottish Enlightenment was not just a philosophical discourse but a multi-faceted cultural revolution that owed its vibrancy to ties of kinship, and to strong commercial and intellectual links with Europe and further abroad.
Author | : Yaron Ayalon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107072972 |
Download Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire's history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.