Bamji, A orcid.org/0000-0003-3256-7979 (2014) Medical Care in Early Modern Venice. Working Paper. Economic History Working Papers, 188 . London School of Economics and Political Science
Abstract
In early modern Venice, a wide range of people offered care, goods and services for the health of the city’s numerous inhabitants. This study utilises Venice’s civic death registers to assess when and why the sick and dying accessed medical care, and how this changed over the course of the early modern period. The detailed registers permit consideration of the profile of medical practitioners, key aspects of patient identity, the involvement of institutions in the provision of medical care, and the relationship between type of illness and the propensity of the sufferer to seek medical support. This study assesses the type, number, density and distribution of practitioners in the city. It demonstrates that recourse to medical care was largely determined by age, social status and type of illness. The lack of financial resources or family support did not preclude access to medical care, due to a web of institutions which offered care to a diverse clientele.
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Item Type: | Monograph |
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Authors/Creators: | |
Keywords: | age; death registers; medical care; medical practitioners; Venice |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of History (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2018 15:19 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2018 15:19 |
Published Version: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/Assets/Docum... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | London School of Economics and Political Science |
Series Name: | Economic History Working Papers |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:86492 |