Sudden Death - Donato, Maria Pia
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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.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
Maria Pia Donato is an associate professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and chargé de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut d¿Histoire moderne et contemporaine of Paris, France. She is the author of Accademie romane. Una storia sociale, 1671-1824 (Naples 2000) and numerous essays on the political, social and cultural life of modern Rome, the history of medicine, and the history of science.