Naples in the time of cholera, 1884-1911
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Naples in the time of cholera, 1884-1911
Cambridge University Press, 1995
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Bibliography: p. 448-462
Includes index
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Description
This 1995 book is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera epidemics of 1884 and 1910-11. It explores the factors that exposed Naples to risk; it examines such popular responses as social hysteria, riots and religiosity; and it traces therapeutic strategies. Cholera also became a metaphor for discontent with the regime: the 1884 outbreak was a national issue which led to the rebuilding of the city amidst widespread corruption. The book sets Naples in a comparative international framework; the disease is also related to larger historical issues, such as the nature of liberal statecraft, the 'Southern Question', mass emigration, organised crime, urban renewal, and the medical profession.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Sanitary Anxieties: 1. A city at risk
- Part II. The Public Epidemic of 1884: 2. From Provence to the Bay of Naples
- 3. Death in Naples
- 4. Survival and recovery
- Part III. Risanamento and Miasma: 5. Rebuilding medicine and politics
- Part IV. The Secret Epidemic of 1910-11: 6. The return of cholera: 1910
- 7. Concealment and crisis: 1911
- Conclusion: Neapolitan cholera and Italian politics
- Bibliography.
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