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Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome (2014)

Donato, Maria Pia (Author)

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ISBN: 9781472418739

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Roman Catholic Church Medicine Epidemics Medicine and religion Sudden death Roman Catholicism Death 18th century Rome (Italy) Italy Clement XI, Pope Lancisi, Giovanni Maria

In 1705–1706, an ‘epidemic’ of mysterious deaths terrorized Rome. Pope Clement XI’s physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, was ordered to perform a series of dissections to discover the cause of the epidemic, which hindered confession, thus threatening the victim’s salvation. The book that Lancisi subsequently published, De subitaneis mortibus (‘On Sudden Deaths’, 1707), is one of the earliest modern scientific investigations of death. Sudden Death explores how a new scientific interpretation of death first came into being, and led the way to a belief in the 'conquest of death' by medicine which remains to this day.

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Review Alessandro Laverda (2016) Review of "Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome". Social History of Medicine (pp. 412-414). unapi

Review Domenico Bertoloni Meli (2015) Review of "Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 926-927). unapi

Review Evan R. Ragland (2016) Review of "Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 100-102). unapi

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