Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884-1911

Voorkant
Cambridge University Press, 14 dec 1995 - 478 pagina's
This is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera epidemics of 1884 and 1910-11. It explores the factors that exposed Naples to risk; it examines such popular responses as social hysteria, riots, and religiosity; and it traces therapeutic strategies.The book is the first extended study of cholera in modern Italy, and it sets Naples in a comparative international framework. The disease is also related to larger historical issues, such as the nature of liberal statecraft, the 'southern question', mass emigration, organised crime, and the medical profession.
 

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A city at risk
11
From Provence to the Bay of Naples
59
Death in Naples 1884
99
Survival and recovery
155
Rebuilding medicine and politics
181
The return of cholera 1910
233
Concealment and crisis 1911
297
Neapolitan cholera and Italian politics
360
Appendix
371
Notes
380
Select bibliography
448
Index
463
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