Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance by Samuel K. Cohn Jr.

Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance

Samuel K. Cohn Jr.

342 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
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Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved ...

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