Article ID: CBB001213108

Pandemics: Waves of Disease, Waves of Hate from the Plague of Athens to A.I.D.S. (2012)

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This article briefly surveys the history of pandemics in the West, contesting long-held assumptions that epidemics sparked hatred and blame of the `Other', and that it was worse when diseases were mysterious as to their causes and cures. The article finds that blame and hate were rarely connected with pandemics in history. In antiquity, epidemics more often brought societies together rather than dividing them as continued to happen with some diseases such as influenza in modernity. On the other hand, some diseases such as cholera were more regularly blamed than others and triggered violence even after their agents and mechanisms of transmission had become well known.

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Authors & Contributors
Cerchiai Manodori Sagredo, Claudia
Likhtman, Shimon
Monique Santos
Alibrandi, Rosamaria
M. Kemal Temel
Chandra, Siddharth
Concepts
Medicine and society
Pandemics
Disease and diseases
Public health
Public understanding of medicine
Medicine, general histories
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Ancient
20th century, late
Places
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Istanbul (Turkey)
Sicily
West Africa
United States
Spain
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