Giorgio Cosmacini: A History of Medicine and Health in Italy. From the Black Death to the Present

Giorgio Cosmacini
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia. Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri
Bari, Roma: Laterza, 2005.
pp. 648, ~@ 24,00
ISBN 8842077674


Medical history, public health, science, technology, belief, from the Black Death to AIDS and SARS--same in Italy as elsewhere in the West: progress, stagnation, innovation, setbacks.