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

Medicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and nuanced account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions in shaping medical l