Cultures of plague : medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

xiv, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sources and perspectives : a quantitative reckoning -- Signs and symptoms -- The impetus from Sicily -- The successo della peste -- The 'liberation' of the city and plague poetry -- Plague disputes, challenges of the 'universals' -- Plague and poverty -- Towards a new public health consciousness in medicine -- Plague psychology.