Disease and the environment in the medieval and early modern worlds. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lori Jones.
• Editors: (Medical historian), Jones, Lori
• Contents: Introduction: Diseases in Historical Environments Lori Jones Part 1: Cleansing and Managing Local Airs, Waters, and Places 1. "For the good and pacific state of the people and the Commune ": Healthscaping in Bologna and Siena before the Black Death (c. 1100–1348) Anna M. Peterson and Courtney Krolikowski 2. "The nourishment of infections ": Disease and Waterscape in Late Medieval Valencia Abigail Agresta 3. From Helpful Gardens to Hateful Words: Moral and Physical Healthscaping in the Late Medieval Rhineland Lucy Barnhouse Part 2: Recalibrating Airs, Waters, and Places: New Environments, New Mentalities 4. "Turkey is almost a perpetual Seminary of the Plague ": Relocating Pathogenic Plague Environments Lori Jones 5. Managing Disaster and Understanding Disease and the Environment in the Early Eighteenth Century Cindy Ermus 6. "Hot Climates" and Disease: Early Modern European Views of Tropical Environments Guillaume Linte Part 3: Science meets Historical Disease Environments 7. Environments of Health and Disease in Tropical Africa before the Colonial Era Gérard Chouin 8. The Rise and Fall of a Historical Plague Reservoir: The Case of Ottoman Anatolia Nükhet Varlik 9. Survival in the Context of Urbanization and Environmental Change in Medieval and Early Modern London, England Sharon N. Dewitte
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 616.98; Environmentally induced diseases -- History; Environmental health -- History; Medical climatology -- History; Public health -- History; Medicine, Medieval
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429619298; 9780429621444; 9780429055478
• Related ISBNs: 9780367151737; 9780367151720
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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