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Disguising disease in Italian political and visual culture : from post-unification to COVID-19 / edited by Sharon Hecker and Arianna Arisi Rota.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in the modern history of Italy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communicable diseases--Italy--History.
- Communicable diseases.
- Communication in public health--Italy--History.
- Communication in public health.
- Communicable diseases in literature.
- Communicable diseases in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 218 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Biography/History:
- Sharon Hecker is an art historian and curator specializing in Modern and Contemporary Italian art. She is the author of A Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture and co-editor of Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today. Arianna Arisi Rota is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Pavia. She specializes in the history of politics and diplomacy in the nineteenth century, with special attention to generations, and memory-building. Her publications include I piccoli cospiratori, Risorgimento, Il cappello dell'imperatore and Profughi.
- Contents:
- Denying disease : an introduction / Sharon Hecker and Arianna Arisi Rota
- Diseased bodies in early modern Europe : picturing plague victims / Louise Marshall
- Experiencing transnational health challenges : the safety/commerce dilemma in Italy's long nineteenth century / Arianna Arisi Rota
- Exporting epidemics : the cholera of 1910-11 from Southern Italy to Libya : denial, causes and consequences / Gabriele Bassi
- Medical mistrust and contagious disease in the Italian 1860s : Professor Angelo Scarenzio's neglected therapy for syphilis / Paolo Mazzarello
- The insufficiency of science : skepticism, polemic and irony towards medicine in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature / Federica Massia
- "Fever veiled in mist" : denying contagious diseases in modern Italian visual arts / Sharon Hecker
- Tigre reale : masking tuberculosis in print and on screen / Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
- The old, the frail and the misinformed : cholera and aging in Visconti's Death in Venice (1971) / Brendan Hennessey
- Tuberculosis, queerness and luxury guests : the hidden stories of Capri's Hotel Quisisana / Ewa Kawamura
- Forgetting or disguising? HIV/AIDS in the Italian newspapers in the twenty-first century / Marco Rovinello
- The Italian National Health Service in a time of crisis : what were the responses for the most vulnerable people? / Marco Terraneo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 04, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Disguising disease in Italian political and visual culture
- ISBN:
- 9781040121863
- 1040121861
- 9781003382805
- 1003382800
- 9781040121856
- 1040121853
- Publisher Number:
- 40032440111
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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