A lecture by John Henderson
This lecture focuses on the development of public health policies in seventeenth-century Tuscany by examining the impact of regulations at the level of the neighbourhood, street and family. Looking behind the optimistic gloss of official printed accounts, John Henderson will examine the often moving and tragic stories of the individuals who ran hospitals, the doctors who treated plague victims, and, above all, of the ordinary men and women left bereft and confused by the sickness and death of family members as they sought to adopt strategies to survive during quarantine and lockdown.
John Henderson is Emeritus Professor of Italian Renaissance History at Birkbeck, University of London, and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He has published a wide range of books and articles on the social, religious and medical history of renaissance and early modern Tuscany. His latest book on the Great Pox in Renaissance Italy will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.
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This lecture is sponsored by Sylvia Cox