Overview
In 17051706, an epidemic of mysterious deaths terrorized Rome. Pope Clement XIs 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 victims 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.
- | Author: Professor Maria Pia Donato
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Mar 18, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Medical
- | ISBN-10: 1472418735
- | ISBN-13: 9781472418739
