Naslov
The public health problems within Vinodol, Vrbnik and Senj medieval statutes

Autori
Ažman, Josip ; Frković, Vedran ; Pavletić, Haris ; Prunk, Adriana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Abstract book, ZIMS 4 / - Zagreb, 2004

Skup
ZIMS 4 - Zagreb international medical summit 4

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 11.11.2004. - 14.11.2004

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Domaća recenzija

Ključne riječi
Croatia; history of medicine; Middle Ages; medicine and law; public health

Sažetak
Aim: To seek out regulations concerning public health in the oldest medieval statutes of the towns on the northern Adriatic coast (NW Croatia) Methods: All of the translated textual versions of the statutes for the three towns were examined. These statutes were written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Results: Research into of the selected materials showed examples of direct and indirect ways of protecting public health. Regulations on keeping towns clean and the rules for dealing with animal products were found. Additionally, witches and fortune tellers were found to be treated as a negative force and were defined as the embodiment of evil and as the incomprehensible forces of darkness, and were thus considered to be heavily connected to illness and misfortune. Conclusion: The aforementioned rules are important from a historical point of view, but also as a reflection of people's awareness of public health as a condition of survival and the progress of the community as a whole. Furthermore, since these statutes were created from people's customs that were to eventually become a law, they show substantial progress in medical history for that particular part of Croatia.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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