In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Ro

This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples

Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the 'mania' f

In recent decades, researchers have studied the cultures of medicine and the ways in which context and identity shape both individual experiences and structural

This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It dis