TY - BOOK ID - 77859883 TI - Naples in the time of cholera, 1884-1911 PY - 1995 SN - 0585131066 0511582234 0511001029 9780585131061 0521483107 9780511582233 9780511001024 9780521483100 9780521893862 0521893860 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cholera KW - Asiatic cholera KW - Cholera, Asiatic KW - Vibrio infections KW - History. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Cholera - Italy - Naples - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77859883 AB - This 1995 book is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera epidemics of 1884 and 1910-11. It explores the factors that exposed Naples to risk; it examines such popular responses as social hysteria, riots and religiosity; and it traces therapeutic strategies. Cholera also became a metaphor for discontent with the regime: the 1884 outbreak was a national issue which led to the rebuilding of the city amidst widespread corruption. The book sets Naples in a comparative international framework; the disease is also related to larger historical issues, such as the nature of liberal statecraft, the 'Southern Question', mass emigration, organised crime, urban renewal, and the medical profession. ER -