TY - JOUR
AU - Jones, Lori
AB - Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 93–114 BOOK REVIEWS Zlata Blažina Tomić and Vesna Blažina. Expelling the Plague: The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377–1533. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. xxii, 363 pp., illus. $39.95. KEYWORDS: quarantine, epidemics, plague hospitals, Ragusa, sanitary cordons Along with Florence, Mantua, Milan, and Venice, historians credit Dubrovnik (also called Ragusa) with implementing the earliest recorded plague control measures. These fourteenth- and fifteenth-century legislative actions—including quarantines, Health Offices, plague hospitals, and sanitary cordons—were adopted much later in northern Europe and, according to some historians, may have contributed to the even- tual disappearance of large-scale plague epidemics on the continent. The historiogra- phy of early plague legislation focuses on the aristocratic Italian city-states and, since Dubrovnik was for a time under Venetian rule, it has been easy to assume that what transpired in one also transpired in the other. Dubrovnik’s history and political culture, however, differed significantly from that of the Italian city-states. So too did the impetuses behind its plague control efforts. In Expelling the Plague, Zlata Blažina Tomić and Vesna Blažina have dug deep into the archival records to 
TI - Expelling the Plague: The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377–1533
JO - Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
DO - 10.1093/jhmas/jrv025
DA - 2016-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/expelling-the-plague-the-health-office-and-the-implementation-of-EhRp8qUAKB
SP - 93
EP - 95
VL - 71
IS - 1
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