Translation of: Morti improvvise / Maria Pia Donato. Roma : Carocci, c2010.
Sudden death and the physician's role in society
Fears
The medico-legal enquiry on sudden death, or, the truth of the body
And the public role of physicians
From the dead to the living: medicine and public health in the early eighteenth century
Sudden death in medical theory and practice
A new stance on death: the mechanical medicine of Lancisi's De subitaneis mortibus
The pathological gaze. The problematic status of post-mortem evidence
In early eighteenth-century medicine
The lost and the saved. Sudden death as an ethical and religious issue
Death and the doctors. Scientific queries and ethical dilemmas
In the hour of death
Looking for a heavenly protector: Saint Andrew Avellino, the "apoplectic saint".
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Sudden death : medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome by Maria Pia Donato. ISBN 9781472418739. Published by Ashgate in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
