Naples in the time of cholera, 1884-1911 /

This 1995 book is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera epidemics of 1884 and 1910-11. It explores the factors that exposed Naples to risk; it examines such popular responses as social hysteria, riots and religiosity; and it traces therapeutic strategies. Chole...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Snowden, Frank M. (Frank Martin), 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Cholera > Italy > Naples > History.
Choléra > Italie > Naples > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Cholera
Italy > Naples
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Glossary of Italian and Neapolitan terms
  • Part I: Sanitary anxieties. 1. A city at risk
  • Part II: The public epidemic of 1884. 2. From Provence to the Bay of Naples ; 3. Death in Naples, 1884 ; 4. Survival and recovery
  • Part III: Risanamento and miasma. 5. Rebuilding : medicine and politics
  • Part IV: The secret epidemic of 1910-19116. The return of cholera: 1910 ; 7. Concealment and crisis : 1911
  • Conclusion: Neapolitan cholera and Italian politics
  • Appendix.

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