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An online journal that publishes articles on medical humanities, history, art, ethics, and education.

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The parallel paths of opera and medicine: In 1597 when Jacopo Peri composed Dafne, the first opera ever written, sporadic epidemics of bubonic plague still struck his city of Florence. Venice was also suffering greatly. It had been visited by the plague twenty-two times, and

The parallel paths of opera and medicine: In 1597 when Jacopo Peri composed Dafne, the first opera  ever written, sporadic epidemics of bubonic plague still struck his city of Florence. Venice was also suffering greatly. It had been visited by the plague twenty-two times, and