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From Body to Community - Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain (Hardcover)
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From Body to Community - Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain (Hardcover)
Series: Toronto Iberic
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Known in early modern Europe by many names - the French Disease,
the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis - the Great Pox was a chronic
disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow
and painful death. The main institution which treated it, the pox
hospital, has come down to us as a stench-filled and overcrowded
place that sought to treat the body and reform the soul. Using the
sole surviving admissions book for Toledo, Spain's Hospital de
Santiago, Cristian Berco reconstructs the lives of men and women
afflicted with the pox by tracing their experiences before, during,
and after their hospitalization. Through an innovative combination
of medical, institutional, and notarial sources, he explores the
physical and social lives of the patients. What were the social
repercussions of living with a shameful disease? What did living
with this chronic illness mean for careers and networks, love and
families, and everyday relationships? From Body to Community is a
textured analysis at once touched by the illness but not solely
defined by it.
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