Disguising Disease in Italian Political and Visual Culture : From Post-Unification to COVID-19 (Hardcover)

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 Towards Medicine in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italian Literature

7. “Fever Veiled in Mist”: Denying Contagious Diseases in Modern Italian Visual Arts

8.?Tigre reale: Masking Tuberculosis in Print and on 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?