For Renaissance Italians, combating black plague was as much about politics as it was science, according to Stanford scholar
The inability of 14th-century medicine to stop the plague from destroying societies throughout Europe and Asia helped advance scientific discovery and transformed politics and health policy, says Stanford historian Paula Findlen.
For Renaissance Italians, combating black plague was as much about politics as it was science, according to Stanford scholar
As the world confronts another global pandemic, Paula Findlen spoke to us about the problems Renaissance Italians faced related to the Black Death, including ones that might seem familiar to us today, such as the difficulties of reliably reporting the disease, misinformation campaigns, and political tensions between states around their response.
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