Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.24141/1/5/2/8
The impact of the disease on history – an example of epidemics
Jelena Barišić
; Klinika za kirurgiju – Zavod za traumatologiju i koštano-zglobnu kirurgiju, KBC Zagreb, Zagreb
Abstract
It is possible to study the history of the disease in many different ways. The research can stay within strictly medical frames and it can focus itself on the type of the disease, on questions of its prevention, on methods of its treatment etc. Nevertheless, since its consequences are recognizable on a broader social level, a disease isn't merely a medical phenomenon. Therefore it is very important to understand in which way a disease affects the history. This paper intends to present the examples of three epidemics which in different historical periods plagued various geographical regions. Influence of the disease is analyzed on three levels: duration of each of the epidemics; geographical prevalence and hypothesis whether some disease has changed the course of the history.
Keywords
history; epidemic; bubonic plague; typhus; smallpox; Napoleon
Hrčak ID:
226594
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Publication date:
15.10.2019.
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