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Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville

Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville

Bowers, Kristy Wilson

Hardcover

Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History, Book 26

Medical ReferenceSports General

ISBN10: 1580464513
ISBN13: 9781580464512
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Sep 15 2013
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This study of sixteenth-century Seville offers a new perspective on how early modern cities adapted to living with repeated epidemics of plague.

Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville offers a reassessment of the impact of plague in the early modern era, presenting sixteenth-century Seville as a case study of how municipal officials and residents worked together to create a public health response that protected both individual and communal interests. Similar studies of plague during this period either dramatize the tragic consequences of the epidemic or concentrate on the tough modern public health interventions, such as quarantine, surveillance and isolation, and the laxness or strictness of their enforcement. Arguing for a redefinition of public health in the early modern era, this study chronicles amore restrained, humane, and balanced response to outbreaks in 1582 and 1599-1600 Seville, showing that city officials aimed to protect the population but also maintain trade and commerce in order to prevent economic disruption.

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