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Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville - 9781580464512

Un libro in lingua di Bowers Kristy Wilson edito da Boydell & Brewer Inc, 2013

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Bowers offers this history on the treatment of plague by public authorities in sixteenth-century Seville, serving as a study in early modern governance and balance of competing interests. The first section introduces the political context of Seville and existing priorities of administrators. Beliefs about the plague are then covered, along with discussion of their policy implications. The frequent inconsistency of enforcement is framed as a balancing act between preventative efforts acting on the community and allowing individuals freedom for economic or morale reasons. Communication across the region and differences in management between rural and urban areas receive a chapter, with a final discussion of the more removed role of the Spanish crown, especially in regulating medical licensing. The conclusion recapitulates the common frame of the plague as a double social and medical crisis, but emphasizes a third focus of the everyday adaptation that survivors necessarily had to discover. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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