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Cholera In Present-Day Haiti: Interpretations Of And Responses To A Contemporary Enemy, Melissa Frick
Cholera In Present-Day Haiti: Interpretations Of And Responses To A Contemporary Enemy, Melissa Frick
Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal
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"In his introduction to Epidemics and Ideas, Paul Slack calls to revive the study of social history of epidemics, wanting to show how societies cope with, react to, and interpret crises of disease. He reviews historian Richard Evans’ notion of the “common dramaturgy” to all epidemics, which states that human society responds to mass infection through an inherent response mechanism. Disease presents common dilemmas - including decisions on how the disease is transmitted, whom it infects, who is to blame, and incites common responses. Furthermore, Slack suggests that …