Disguising disease in Italian political and visual culture: from post-unification to COVID-19

Although considered an isolated event, the Italian government's initial resistant response to COVID-19 has deep historical roots. This is the first interdisciplinary book to critically examine the ongoing phenomenon of disguising contagious disease in Italy from Unification to the present.

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Main Author: Hecker, Sharon (Author)
Other Authors: Arisi Rota, Arianna 1964- (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2025
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Italy Series
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Online Access:DE-Y3
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Summary:Although considered an isolated event, the Italian government's initial resistant response to COVID-19 has deep historical roots. This is the first interdisciplinary book to critically examine the ongoing phenomenon of disguising contagious disease in Italy from Unification to the present.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Denying Disease: An Introduction -- 2 Diseased Bodies in Early Modern Europe: Picturing Plague Victims -- 3 Experiencing Transnational Health Challenges: The Safety/Commerce Dilemma in Italy's Long Nineteenth Century -- 4 Exporting Epidemics: The Cholera of 1910-11 from Southern Italy to Libya - Denial, Causes and Consequences -- 5 Medical Mistrust and Contagious Disease in the Italian 1860s: Professor Angelo Scarenzio's Neglected Therapy for Syphilis -- 6 The Insufficiency of Science: Skepticism, Polemic and Irony Toward Medicine in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italian Literature -- 7 "Fever Veiled in Mist": Denying Contagious Diseases in Modern Italian Visual Arts -- 8 Masking Female Illness in Tigre Reale: Tuberculosis from Print to Screen -- 9 The Old, the Frail and the Misinformed: Cholera and Aging in Visconti's Death in Venice (1971) -- 10 Tuberculosis, Queerness and Luxury Guests: The Hidden Stories of Capri's Hotel Quisisana -- 11 Forgetting or Disguising? HIV/AIDS in the Italian Newspapers in the Twenty-First Century -- 12 The Italian National Health Service in a Time of Crisis: What Were the Responses for the Most Vulnerable People? -- Index.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 218 Seiten)
ISBN:9781003382805
DOI:10.4324/9781003382805

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