Abstract
There are several aims of this study. One goal is to consider the multi-dimensional nature of disease as both a scientific and biological phenomenon but also as a socially constructed event. The second goal is to identify the ways in which the Black Death was socially constructed according to Peter Conrad and Kristin Barker’s theoretical approach and using Piers Mitchell’s methodological approach. The final goal is to illustrate these concepts and their consequences through a series of journal entries written through the perspective of Guy de Chauliac, physician to Pope Clement VI during the 1348 outbreak in Avignon.
Advisor
Kardulias, Nick
Second Advisor
Ng, Margaret
Department
History; Sociology and Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Nelson, Hope E., "Experiences of the Plague in 14th Century Avignon, France" (2018). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 8251.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/8251
Disciplines
Archaeological Anthropology | Creative Writing | Diseases | European History | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Medical Humanities | Medicine and Health | Medieval History | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Theory, Knowledge and Science
Keywords
Black Death, Guy de Chauliac, Epidemiology, Paleopathology, Symbolic Interactionism, Social Constructionism, Avignon, France, Plague, Medicine, History of Medicine, Social construction of illness
Publication Date
2018
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
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