Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

Donato, Maria Pia

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2024

240

Mole

9781032925905

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Introduction. Part I Sudden 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 18th century. Part II Sudden Death in Medical Theory and Practice: A new stance on death: the mechanical medicine of Lancisi's De subitaneis mortibus (1707); The pathological gaze: the problematic status of post-mortem evidence in early 18th-century medicine. Part III 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'. Epilogue: was there ever a sudden death 'epidemic' in Rome?; Index.
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Julius III;Young Man;Anatomo Pathological Method;Aristotle's Parva Naturalia;Enlightened Innovations;Paul III;Capite Ad Calcem;Graeco Roman Medicine;Bonet's Sepulchretum;Clement XI;Early Eighteenth Century Rome;Papal Archiater;Pope Innocent XII;Troubled Catholicism;Roman Imperial Age;Corpuscularian Natural Philosophy;Eighteenth Century Rome;Lot's Wife;Mechanical Medicine;Acta Eruditorum;Articulo Mortis;Innate Heat;Court Appointment;Discalced Carmelites;Cardiac Valve Regurgitation