An insightful examination [and] an eloquent account of the difficulties of legislating and enforcing public health regulations on epidemic disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES
Bowers has written a provocative study that offers new ways of thinking about urban pestilential experiences. Her subtle and diligent mining of archival materials makes her interpretation a ... Read moreparticularly persuasive one.
ISIS
Bowers has written a great little book. In this well-researched case study of plague and the city of Seville's response to it, Bowers challenges our persistent image of the complete social and economic disruption most often associatedwith plague outbreaks. Her work reminds us that well-researched regional studies can reveal surprising challenges to what we assume we know about the early modern world and its 'premodern' response to public health threats.
BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
This book provides a fresh alternative view of how public health worked in early modern Europe. Through exploring the archival records of Seville, Bowers examines the varied ways medical practitioners, public health officers, and lay people perceived and reacted against the plague epidemics of 1582 and 1599.
Jon Arrizabalaga,Institución Milà i Fontanals, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona
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