Abstract
The monographic section analyzes the impact of epidemics on modern and contemporary European societies, focusing in particular on the role of four infectious diseases: sweating sickness, plague, smallpox and cholera. The role of public health policies in defending against these diseases is brought to the fore.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Machine translation] The great epidemics in history |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2021 |
Keywords
- early modern age
- epidemics
- epidemie
- età moderna
- health policies
- malattie infettive
- politica sanitaria