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Journal articles on the topic "Epidemics – History"
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Lu, Di. "History of Epidemics in China." Asian Medicine 16, no. 1 (August 13, 2021): 137–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341487.
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Abstract The global pandemic of COVID-19 as a zoonotic disease invites new reflections on the human-animal relationship in the history of epidemics. Historians have explored medical concepts, social impacts, and other aspects of epidemics in China at different geographical and temporal scales. Relevant research significantly enriches historical understanding, yet animals seldom occupy the center of attention despite the fact that a variety of human infectious diseases such as plague are zoonotic in origin. This article suggests the need for a reappraisal of epidemics in Chinese history, with particular consideration of historical information on the multifold involvement of animals in human infections and anticontagious measures. Rethinking historically the interactions between humans and animals within the epidemic context helps to raise our awareness that Chinese medical thinkers were sensitive to the possibility of zoonotic infection, and prompt new analyses of how they understood the human-animal boundary and beyond.
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Kaur, Harmanjot, Shashwat Garg, Himanshu Joshi, Sumbul Ayaz, Surabhi Sharma, and Maulshree Bhandari. "A Review: Epidemics and Pandemics in Human History." International Journal of Pharma Research and Health Sciences 8, no. 2 (April 2020): 3139–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.21276/ijprhs.2020.02.01.
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Sakhno, Natalya. "The worst epidemics in human history." Spravočnik vrača obŝej praktiki (Journal of Family Medicine), no. 3 (March 1, 2020): 66–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/med-10-2003-08.
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Today the world's attention is focused on China, on the epidemic caused by coronavirus infection. As of the end of February, more than 77 thousand people affected with the disease had been registered, fatal outcome had been observed in more than 2500 cases. The Chinese authorities announced the beginning of a new epidemic at the very end of 2019. Moreover, if fatal outcomes were observed a month after the onset of mass incidence only within the country, then, in February, they went beyond its borders and were registered in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Iran, the Philippines, France and Italy. It is noteworthy that China became a source of the spread of the epidemic process not for the first time. So, in 2002 it was in this country, in Guangdong, that an outbreak of SARS was recorded, and in 1997, avian influenza spread from Hong Kong around the world. To tell the truth, the death rate from these diseases did not exceed thousands of people in both cases, and in the case of bird flu (or avian influenza), development of the disease was observed only in people eating chicken meat. It should be noted that in the entire history of the development of mankind, more people died as a result of epidemics and pandemics, than in all wars combined. Let us recall the worst epidemics in the history of mankind, the victims of which were millions of people.
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Hide, Geoff. "History of Sleeping Sickness in East Africa." Clinical Microbiology Reviews 12, no. 1 (January 1, 1999): 112–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/cmr.12.1.112.
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SUMMARY The history of human sleeping sickness in East Africa is characterized by the appearance of disease epidemics interspersed by long periods of endemicity. Despite the presence of the tsetse fly in large areas of East Africa, these epidemics tend to occur multiply in specific regions or foci rather than spreading over vast areas. Many theories have been proposed to explain this phenomenon, but recent molecular approaches and detailed analyses of epidemics have highlighted the stability of human-infective trypanosome strains within these foci. The new molecular data, taken alongside the history and biology of human sleeping sickness, are beginning to highlight the important factors involved in the generation of epidemics. Specific, human-infective trypanosome strains may be associated with each focus, which, in the presence of the right conditions, can be responsible for the generation of an epidemic. Changes in agricultural practice, favoring the presence of tsetse flies, and the important contribution of domestic animals as a reservoir for the parasite are key factors in the maintenance of such epidemics. This review examines the contribution of molecular and genetic data to our understanding of the epidemiology and history of human sleeping sickness in East Africa.
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Sanatkar, M. R., C. Scoglio, B. Natarajan, S. A. Isard, and K. A. Garrett. "History, Epidemic Evolution, and Model Burn-In for a Network of Annual Invasion: Soybean Rust." Phytopathology® 105, no. 7 (July 2015): 947–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/phyto-12-14-0353-fi.
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Ecological history may be an important driver of epidemics and disease emergence. We evaluated the role of history and two related concepts, the evolution of epidemics and the burn-in period required for fitting a model to epidemic observations, for the U.S. soybean rust epidemic (caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi). This disease allows evaluation of replicate epidemics because the pathogen reinvades the United States each year. We used a new maximum likelihood estimation approach for fitting the network model based on observed U.S. epidemics. We evaluated the model burn-in period by comparing model fit based on each combination of other years of observation. When the miss error rates were weighted by 0.9 and false alarm error rates by 0.1, the mean error rate did decline, for most years, as more years were used to construct models. Models based on observations in years closer in time to the season being estimated gave lower miss error rates for later epidemic years. The weighted mean error rate was lower in backcasting than in forecasting, reflecting how the epidemic had evolved. Ongoing epidemic evolution, and potential model failure, can occur because of changes in climate, host resistance and spatial patterns, or pathogen evolution.
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Dine, Sarah B. "Law, History, And Epidemics." Health Affairs 40, no. 4 (April 1, 2021): 678–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00319.
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Ahmad, Wasim, Sayed Tauleha, Mohammad Zulkifle, and Ghulamuddin Sofi. "Role of Unani Medicine in Prevention and Treatment of Waba (Epidemics) including COVID-19: A Review." European Journal of Cell Science 2, no. 1 (August 15, 2020): 01–09. http://dx.doi.org/10.34154/2020-ejcs-0201-01-09/euraass.
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Mankind has faced many hardships like natural disaster, drought and epidemics. Study focuses on epidemics caused by microbes.Unani medicine has a long experience in treating epidemic diseases because its history is as old as the history of human being itself. More or less entire of the civilisations throughout the history became the basis for evolution of Unani medicine. Hippocrates (460-380BC) regarded it asbothart and science, discussed the epidemics and wrote a book on Epidemics. Body is assumed healthy when the humours are balanced. So, Unani scholars have rightly said Fa’il (Active agent) is not able to produce any change (Actions & Reactions) in the body without the prior presence of Munfa’il(Pertinent) having the capacity to accept it like in Waba(epidemic). The aim is to explore the fundamental concept of Waba from the Unani literature and understand COVID-19 in reference to existing literature of Unani medicine. The literature of Unani medicine was surveyed for concept of Waba(Epidemic) & related concepts. Internet was used to access indexed papers using search engines like Medline, PubMed, Science Direct, etc. Logical preventive strategies like quarantine, and useof fumigants, prophylactic drugs are mentioned in Unani literature that have been used in epidemics with flue like symptoms. This knowledge and experience may be used for achieving methods for prophylaxis, cure or add on therapeutic measures for COVID-19 epidemic.
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An, Lu Vi. "Epidemics and pandemics in human history: Origins, effects and response measures." Science & Technology Development Journal - Social Sciences & Humanities 4, no. 4 (December 15, 2020): first. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdjssh.v4i4.612.
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Epidemics and pandemics are kind of the regular disasters that not only threaten human health, but also affect economy, social and politic life of many societies and civilizations. In the timeline of human history, there have long been a lot of catastrophic epidemics, rapidly spreading all over the world, leading to massive deaths and becoming horrible challenges to human existence. They included the plague of Antonine in Ancient Rome; the Justinian pandemic and ``the Black Death'' in the Medieval period; the pandemic of cholera and the Asian plague in the modern age; the 1918- 1919 flu pandemic, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the influenza pandemic in 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019-2020. The main infectious diseases that cause pandemics in human history are plagued, smallpox, cholera and flu. By approaching the macrohistory and environmental history, the article made some overviews of epidemics and pandemics in human history from ancient ages to modern ages. Firstly, the article researches the terms ``epidemic, pandemic" and their levels. Next, the article analyzes the origins of epidemics and pandemics, the causes of their appearance, including biological factors, natural conditions and social conditions. Then, the article presents the outbreaks, spreads and impacts of some significant epidemics and pandemics in human history. Hence, the article also initially evaluates some response measures to epidemics and pandemics in history.
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Shrum, Wesley, John Aggrey, Andre Campos, Janaina Pamplona da Costa, Jan Joseph, Pablo Kreimer, Rhiannon Kroeger, et al. "Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age." Social Studies of Science 50, no. 5 (June 29, 2020): 707–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312720927781.
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Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that epidemics are ‘fire objects’, using a term coined by Law and Singleton: They generate locative fears through encounters that focus attention on entities that are unknown or imprecisely known, transforming spaces and humans into indeterminate dangers, alternating appearance and absence. The Ebola epidemic of 2014 had more complex impacts than the number of infections would suggest. We employ multi-sited qualitative interviews to argue that locative fear is the essence of modern global epidemics. In the discussion we contrast Ebola with both the Zika epidemic that followed and the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Kleczkowski, A., and C. A. Gilligan. "Parameter estimation and prediction for the course of a single epidemic outbreak of a plant disease." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 4, no. 16 (July 17, 2007): 865–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2007.1036.
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Many epidemics of plant diseases are characterized by large variability among individual outbreaks. However, individual epidemics often follow a well-defined trajectory which is much more predictable in the short term than the ensemble (collection) of potential epidemics. In this paper, we introduce a modelling framework that allows us to deal with individual replicated outbreaks, based upon a Bayesian hierarchical analysis. Information about ‘similar’ replicate epidemics can be incorporated into a hierarchical model, allowing both ensemble and individual parameters to be estimated. The model is used to analyse the data from a replicated experiment involving spread of Rhizoctonia solani on radish in the presence or absence of a biocontrol agent, Trichoderma viride . The rate of primary (soil-to-plant) infection is found to be the most variable factor determining the final size of epidemics. Breakdown of biological control in some replicates results in high levels of primary infection and increased variability. The model can be used to predict new outbreaks of disease based upon knowledge from a ‘library’ of previous epidemics and partial information about the current outbreak. We show that forecasting improves significantly with knowledge about the history of a particular epidemic, whereas the precision of hindcasting to identify the past course of the epidemic is largely independent of detailed knowledge of the epidemic trajectory. The results have important consequences for parameter estimation, inference and prediction for emerging epidemic outbreaks.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Epidemics – History"
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Leonard, Marie-Louise. "Plague epidemics and public health in Mantua, 1463-1577." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5704/.
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This thesis investigates how health officials sought to preserve or recover good health during plague epidemics in Mantua, from 1463-1577. Scholarship on health boards in Italy has focused primarily on larger cities such as Milan, Florence and Venice, while many smaller cities and states which formed part of the wider network of interdependent health offices have yet to receive significant attention. This study attempts to address this imbalance by focussing on Mantua, a hitherto neglected area in the heart of northern Italy. Historians have shown by the sixteenth century health offices had wide-ranging responsibilities, yet their most important function remained tackling plague outbreaks through measures including trade and travel bans, quarantine periods and lazaretti. An analysis of the Mantuan health office’s actions and reactions reveal that it does not fit neatly with the health board model historians have established elsewhere in northern and central Italy. I will argue that while the hallmarks of the ‘Italian system’ of public health procedures are evident, closer examination of their organisation and composition reveals that they were shaped by the incidence and severity of outbreaks. Above all, however, they were dependent upon and defined by the evolving state apparatus and by participation of the wider community, both lay and ecclesiastic. Contrary to the view that permanent Italian health offices enforced plague regulations uniformly, there was a degree of flexibility in application within the structures created to fight plague. Further, it will be argued that by examining in detail symbolic acts, such as processions, in conjunction with practical methods we see with greater clarity how civic and ecclesiastical authorities worked together in the attempt to restore the city to good health. By exploring the dialogues between civic authorities, the people they governed and interactions between specific health agencies across the peninsula, this thesis contributes to the understanding of the Gonzagan state-building process and concepts of public health in Renaissance Italy.
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Atkinson, Joseph Logan. "The Upper Canadian legal response to the cholera epidemics of 1832 and 1834." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ58262.pdf.
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Gurgel, Cristina Brandt Friedrich Martin. "Indios, jesuitas e bandeirantes : medicinas e doenças no Brasil dos seculos XVI e XVII." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/309188.
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Orientadores: Eros Antonio de Almeida, Rachel LewinsohnTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas
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Resumo: Isolados durante milhares de anos, os indígenas não desenvolveram imunidade diante de vírus e bactérias originários de outros continentes. Apesar de seu habitat não ser destituído de uma grande variedade de moléstias (dentre elas o pian, a leishmaniose cutânea e a doença de Chagas), no contato com o colonizador, a deficiência de resposta imune Th2 para micro-organismos autóctones causou verdadeiras tragédias entre os brasilíndios, que sucumbiam por gripes, sarampo, disenterias e principalmente varíola. Médicos formados constituíam um grupo insignificante no Brasil colonial e diante do vazio profissional, jesuítas (os primeiros que se lançaram nas práticas médicas), curiosos, curandeiros, barbeiros, benzedeiras compunham um contingente expressivo. Todos praticavam uma medicina híbrida, formada inicialmente pela medicina popular européia e indígena; ambas possuíam uma noção materializada da doença que, uma vez instituída, deveria abandonar o organismo. Diante disso, a terapêutica baseava-se em sangrias, purgas e vomitórios, além de rituais, rezas e uso de amuletos para satisfazer o sobrenatural. Estas práticas médicas concomitantemente valeram-se da variada flora medicinal nativa e foram difundidas pelos bandeirantes, que desbravavam os sertões de norte a sul - por este motivo esta terapêutica foi denominada "Remédios de Paulistas" - e foi usada para diversos males como opilação (anemia), escrófulas, "carneiradas" (malária) e "meia-cegueira" (tracoma?), comuns nas matas e vilas incipientes. Nenhuma das medicinas, erudita ou popular - que na realidade eram muito semelhantes entre si - foi eficaz diante das epidemias. A despeito de serem os indígenas suas principais vítimas, elas matavam de senhores de engenho a escravos, faziam ruir a economia e causavam fome e desalento. Falências, crescentes dívidas para importar escravos africanos (mais caros, porém mais resistentes às doenças) constituíram por muitos anos um quadro sombrio da vida no Brasil. Num círculo cruel de causa e efeito, os escravos negros substituíram gradativamente o trabalho indígena nas lavouras, mas trouxeram mais doenças, como o maculo, a febre amarela, a malária (por P. falciparum) e a própria varíola. As tentativas indígenas na defesa de seu território resultaram em fracasso; a morte, na grande maioria das vezes, foi causada direta ou indiretamente pelas doenças infecciosas de além-mar e não por canhões e arcabuzes. Assim, na falta de uma imunidade eficaz, as guerras contra os colonizadores já estavam vencidas, antes mesmo de iniciadas.
Abstract: Isolated during thousands of years, native Brazilians did not developed immunity to microorganisms from another continent. Despite the presence of diseases in their habitat, (such as non venereal treponematosis, cutaneous leshmaniosis and Chagas' disease), with exposure to alien explorers, the deficiency of an immune response Th2 to viruses and foreign bacteria, truly decimated the native population of Brazil, which succumbed secondary to primarily small pox, but also to the flu, measles and dysentery. Trained physicians were scarce in colonial Brazil, and due to this professional void, Jesuits (the first to start medical practices), curious people, shamans, barbers and faith healers tried to replace them; all practiced a hybrid form of medicine, based initially in the popular European medicine combined with native roots. Both schools of thought had a "material" concept of the diseases; that is, once developed, it had to abandon the organism. As such, therapy was based in exsanguinations, intestinal cleansing and forced vomit, in addition to rituals, praying and use of amulets to appease the supernatural world. These medical practices made extensive use of the varied native medicinal flora, and this knowledge was spread out by the alien explorers of the north and south remote regions - as a consequence, this therapy was called " Remedios de Paulistas", i. e., Medicine of Sao Paulo - , and it was used for a variety of maladies such as anemia, scrofula, malaria, and trachoma, diseases common in the jungle and adjacent hamlets. None of the medical practices - classic or popular (very similar to each other) - was efficacious against any epidemics. Despite native Brazilians being most affected, epidemics also killed African slaves and their owners, ruining the economy and causing hunger and discouragement. Personal bankruptcy, increased debts for buying African slaves (more expensive, however more resistant to diseases) lead to, for many years, a somber lifestyle in Brazil. In a cruel circle of cause and effect, African slaves gradually replaced native Brazilians as work force in the plantations; on the other hand, they also brought in diseases such as infectious recto colitis, yellow fever and malaria - caused by P. falciparum, and even small pox. All native Brazilian resistance to colonization resulted in failure; death, in the vast majority of cases, was caused directly or indirectly by the exposure to alien diseases, and not by cannons or guns. As a consequence, due to lack of an efficient immune system, the battle against the colonizers was already lost, even before it had started.
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Pavanati, Cássia Mariane 1985. "A saúde e a doença em Campinas : 1889-1930 (re) visitando uma história." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/309222.
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Orientador: Everardo Duarte NunesDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
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Resumo: Este estudo reconstitui através de uma revisão das fontes historiográficas e documentais, a história da saúde, doença e do sanitarismo da cidade de Campinas durante a Primeira República brasileira, do final do século XIX às primeiras décadas do século XX. Este período de significativas transformações no Brasil, não apenas políticas, também modificaram notoriamente as questões referentes à saúde, tanto no país como na cidade de Campinas. Campinas se destacou como produtora agrícola, inicialmente, e mais tarde como centro industrial e comercial. O trabalho ressalta as diversas modificações pelas quais a cidade atravessou durante os sucessivos surtos epidêmicos que assolaram a cidade, principalmente a febre amarela; destaca a implantação e organização das primeiras instituições destinadas ao tratamento da saúde e doença. A reconstituição proveniente da revisão historiográfica compõe um cenário geral sobre a situação sanitária do período, como da estruturação do serviço de saúde na cidade em meio às mudanças políticas, econômicas, sociais e culturais, intrínsecas à Primeira República brasileira
Abstract: This study reproduces through a review of documentary sources and historiography, the history of health, disease and sanitarism city of Campinas in Brazil during the First Republic, the late nineteenth century to the early decades of the twentieth century. This period of significant transformations in Brazil, not just policies also changed markedly issues relating to health, both at home and in the city of Campinas. Campinas excelled as agricultural production, initially, and later as industrial and commercial center. The work highlights the various changes which the city went through during successive epidemics that ravaged the city, especially yellow fever; highlights the organization and deployment of the first institutions for the treatment of health and disease. Reconstitution from the historiographical revision composes a scene on the general health situation of the period, as the structure of the health service in the city amid the political, economic, social and cultural, intrinsic to the First Brazilian Republic
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Sendzik, Walter. "The 1832 Montreal cholera epidemic : a study in state formation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37236.pdf.
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Phoofolo, Pule. "In time of plague : the Basotho and the rinderpest, 1896-8." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002405.
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Rinderpest, the most dreaded bovine plague, struck the cattle of the BaSotho in British Basutoland early in 1897. By December the murrain had spent itself, having reduced the cattle population by half As it did so, the rinderpest claimed the primary historical significance of an epidemic. By sharpening behaviour and illuminating latent or developing tendencies, the rinderpest helped to reveal the nooks and crannies of contemporary historical processes that would have otherwise eluded historical visibility. This thesis brings out the complexities and ambiguities surrounding the epidemic. It uses the crisis occasioned by the panzootic in its multifaceted manifestations as a prism through which we might view the complex aspects of contemporary historical processes. It goes beyond the narrow limits of the crisis itself to discerning the broader and wider historical patterns that the rinderpest helped to highlight.
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Silva, GlÃubia Cristiane Arruda. "O Tremor dos SertÃes: experiÃncias da epidemia de malÃria no Baixo Jaguaribe-CE (1937-1940)." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2007. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=728.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorEsta pesquisa busca interpretar as diversas experiÃncias vivenciadas pela populaÃÃo do Baixo Jaguaribe CearÃ, durante a epidemia de malÃria ao longo dos anos de 1937 a 1940. SerÃo analisadas as adversidades, mudanÃas e permanÃncias culturais que a peste palustre trazia para o dia-a-dia da regiÃo. Tais interferÃncias originaram uma crise na economia local, uma vez que o tempo do trabalho ficou submetido aos intervalos em que os acessos da doenÃa nÃo se manifestavam. Muitas safras, entÃo, ficaram perdidas e muito trabalho por ser realizado nas roÃas, nos carnaubais, nos pastos, nos algodoeiros, dentre outros, pois, em muitas residÃncias, a doenÃa se manifestou em todos os membros de uma mesma famÃlia. A incidÃncia da malÃria tambÃm ocasionou mudanÃas nos rituais fÃnebres: as pessoas nÃo acompanhavam os enterros, evitavam freqÃentar as sentinelas, os sinos das igrejas nÃo badalavam anunciando as mortes e, para alÃm destas, os padres da regiÃo nÃo conseguiam dar conta dos pedidos de extrema-unÃÃo aos moribundos. SerÃo ressaltadas tambÃm as diversas explicaÃÃes para o processo de erradicaÃÃo da doenÃa. Portanto, busca compreender a peste palustre para alÃm do seu carÃter patolÃgico, classificando-a como elemento responsÃvel por todo um processo de desorganizaÃÃo social. Dessa forma, ao optar por estudar a epidemia de malÃria, acabamos por tecer uma teia que envolve tanto os sentimentos, como as experiÃncias vivenciadas pelas pessoas atingidas pela mazela.
This research aims to understand the sort of experiences lived by the population of âBaixo Jaguaribeâ region, state of CearÃ, during the epidemics of malaria through 1937 until 1940. The adversities and the cultural permanency and changes the swampy plague brought to the routine of that region were analyzed. Such interferences originate a crisis in the local economy, once the time dedicated to laboring submitted itself to the intervals that the diseaseâs peak had not appeared. Sometimes the disease reached all the members of one single family, thereupon many crops were lost and also a lot of work to be done in the field (cultivated with carnaubas, cotton) and in the pasture were left behind. Due to the plague, some funeral rituais changed: people did not follow funerals and did not attend to the death-watch, the churchesâ bell did not toll to announce deaths in the community and, besides all this, the priests were not able to attend all the moribund requests to âextrema-unÃÃoâ. The whole set of explications to the process of eradication of the plague were highlighted in this research. Thus, swampy plague was understood beyond its pathologic aspect, referring to it as a component responsible for a complete social disorganization process. Therefore, as the option to study the epidemics of malaria was set, a complex network that embodies feelings as well as experiences lived by the people caught by the plague was found.
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Dall\'Ava, João Paulo. "Sorocaba entre epidemias: a experiência de Álvaro Soares na febre amarela e na gripe espanhola (1897-1918)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5137/tde-05102015-112501/.
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A presente pesquisa investiga as epidemias de febre amarela - em 1897 e 1900 - e de gripe espanhola - em 1918 - ocorridas em Sorocaba e a atuação do médico Álvaro César da Cunha Soares no seu combate, a fim de revelar as condições sanitárias de uma cidade que passava por grandes transformações, como o crescimento urbano e a industrialização, em um contexto de consolidação da medicina oficial e de acirrados debates em torno das questões relacionadas à saúde pública. Para tanto, traça-se um panorama das condições sanitárias e de saúde pública de Sorocaba entre o final do século XIX e o início do século XX, apontando o agravamento dos problemas sociais e o aumento do número de casos de determinadas enfermidades. Desse modo, pretende-se demonstrar como a condição de vida da população pobre sorocabana foi se deteriorando cada vez mais enquanto a cidade apresentava um relativo crescimento urbano e industrial. As epidemias de febre amarela são reconstituídas, abordando-se questões políticas, sociais e científicas que se desenrolaram no decorrer dos surtos epidêmicos, em um contexto de disputa entre o poder estadual, representado pelo Serviço Sanitário do Estado de São Paulo, e os poderes locais, representados por médicos e autoridades públicas municipais, na condução das medidas de combate às epidemias. A epidemia de gripe espanhola na cidade representou um desafio às autoridades públicas locais e uma ameaça à estabilidade econômica local - em um momento em que o crescimento industrial da cidade era colocado em evidência. Desse modo, estudando as epidemias que assolaram Sorocaba na virada do século XIX para o XX e acompanhando a atuação de Álvaro Soares nesse contexto, pretende-se compreender melhor a relação entre a consolidação da medicina oficial no Estado de São Paulo e suas implicações nas práticas em saúde públicaThis research investigates epidemics of yellow fever - in 1897 and 1900 - and the Spanish flu - in 1918 - occurred in Sorocaba and the performance of the medical Álvaro César Soares da Cunha in combating them, in order to reveal the sanitary conditions of a city passing through major transformations, such as urban growth and industrialization, in a context of consolidation of official medicine and heated debates on issues related to public health. To this end, draws up an overview of public health and sanitary conditions of Sorocaba in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, pointing to the worsening of social problems and the increasing number of cases of certain diseases. Thus, it is intended to demonstrate how the living conditions of the poor in Sorocaba was deteriorating more and more as the city had a relative urban and industrial growth. The yellow fever epidemics are reconstituted, addressing political, social and scientific issues that unfolded over the outbreaks, in a dispute context between state power, represented by the State Sanitation Service of São Paulo, and local authorities, represented by physicians and municipal authorities, in the conduct of measures to combat epidemics. The Spanish flu epidemic in the city was a challenge to local public authorities and a threat to local economic stability - at a time when the industrial growth of the city was placed in evidence. Thus, studying the epidemics that ravaged Sorocaba in the late nineteenth century to the twentieth and monitoring the performance of Alvaro Soares in this context, it is intended to better understand the relationship between the consolidation of official medicine in the State of São Paulo and its implications for practice in public health
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Hernandez, Tasco Aleidys 1988. "Limites das convicções científicas : as epidemias no Rio de Janeiro e em Socorro e o desencadeamento da crise nos estudos da febre amarela (1927-1948)." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/287239.
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Orientador: Cristina de CamposDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências
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Resumo: Em 1927 a luta contra a febre amarela parecia finalizada no continente americano. A Fundação Rockefeller, instituição filantrópica estadunidense que tinha como principal objetivo o combate da febre amarela na primeira metade do século XX, assegurava que a doença estava quase erradicada. No entanto, a ocorrência das epidemias de febre amarela no Rio de Janeiro em 1928 (Brasil) e em Socorro em 1929 (Colômbia), colocou em dúvida as medidas profiláticas recomendadas e aplicadas tanto pelos órgãos nacionais de Saúde Pública como os da Fundação Rockefeller que participou da luta contra essa doença em ambos os países. Ao mesmo tempo em que ocorriam as epidemias, uma controvérsia instalou-se em torno à descoberta de Stokes, Bauer e Hudson na África, em 1927, que demonstrou que a febre amarela era facilmente inoculável no Macacus Rhesus. Tal descoberta acabou por rejeitar a concepção etiológica estabelecida em 1919 por Noguchi. A nova descoberta dos pesquisadores, as epidemias e a rejeição da teoria de Noguchi geraram uma enorme desconfiança na época, dando a sensação de que nada era seguro em assuntos relacionados à febre amarela, despertando uma crise nos estudos da doença. Esta pesquisa assume a responsabilidade de fazer um estudo comparativo a partir da ciência, da política e da técnica que ambos os países usaram no combate à doença, com intuito de conhecer as experiências desenvolvidas com o fenômeno da febre amarela. Assim, a dissertação tem dois objetivos principais. Primeiro, analisar o processo histórico da febre amarela, a fim de entender a crise que predominou nos estudos da doença entre os anos de 1927 e 1930. Para isso iremos analisar os múltiplos atores locais, nacionais e internacionais no domínio teórico e técnico da doença, durante a epidemia de febre amarela no Rio de Janeiro, em 1928-29, e em Socorro, em 1929. O segundo objetivo é analisar as manifestações científicas contra o avanço da febre amarela no Brasil e na Colômbia, a partir das duas últimas grandes epidemias registradas no Rio de Janeiro (1928-1929) e em Socorro (1929), através das tensões entre o ideal de uma ciência médica universal, representada pela Fundação Rockefeller e pelas Conferências Pan-Americanas, e as práticas de saúde pública, representadas por médicos e pesquisadores, elaboradas localmente para minimizar o alcance da febre amarela no período de 1930 a 1948
Abstract: In 1927 the fight against yellow fever seemed to have concluded in American continent. In the first half of the twentieth century, a philanthropic American organization had as primary goal the fight against that outbreak (The Rockefeller Foundation) and, they ensured that epidemic was almost completely eradicated in that time. Nonetheless, two yellow fever outbreaks recorded in Rio de Janeiro in 1928 (Brazil) and Socorro in 1929 (Colombia) put in doubt the prophylactic measures recommended and implemented by the National Agencies of Public Health and the Rockefeller Foundation. This later institution took part in the fight against the disease in both countries. A controversy was established, while those epidemics took place in both countries, due to the discovery made by Stokes, Bauer e Hudson in Africa in 1927, which demonstrated Macacus Rhesus could be easily inoculated with the virus of yellow fever. That discovery eventually rejected the etiological agent theory established by Noguchi in 1919. In this fashion, with the new discovery, the epidemics and the rejecting of Noguchi's theory, a huge distrust grew up in those days, giving the impression that nothing was safe in issues related to yellow fever, and generating a crisis in studies of disease. Therefore, a comparative study from science, policy and technical that both Colombia and Brazil used in fighting against disease is carried out in this research in order to know the experiences developed with the yellow fever. In this manner, this dissertation has two mains objectives. First, the historical process of yellow fever will be analyzed by this research to understand the crisis that prevailed in studies of that disease between 1927 and 1930. For this reason, the multiple local actors, national and international in theoretical and technical field of the disease were analyzed during yellow fever outbreak in 1928-29 in Rio de Janeiro and in 1929 in Socorro. Second, several scientific manifestations against the progress of yellow fever in Brazil and Colombia were also studied from the last two major epidemics recorded in Rio de Janeiro (1928-1929) and Socorro (1929). Thus, controversies between an ideal of universal medical science represented by Rockefeller Foundation and Pan-American Conference, and the local public health practices developed to minimize the propagation of yellow fever in the period between 1930 and 1948
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Figueira, Junior Oseas Batista. "A ordem médica sobre o alagadiço: higienismo e epidemias na Alagoas Oitocentista (1850-1882)." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2018. http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/3478.
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It is known that the epidemics changed the daily life of the populations bringing the fear of death as a companion of thousands of individuals in several Provinces of Brazil in the second half of the nineteenth century. Thus a set of actions of the provinces governments having as protagonists the medical hygienists were enlarged. Through the Public Hygiene Boards, visits were made to vessels, markets, warehouses, homes and in all spaces, and establishments that could cause damage to public health in the conception of such men of science. In this sense, this study entitled: The medical order on the flood: Hygiene and Epidemics in Imperial Alagoas (1850-1882) aims to understand the impact caused by the epidemics in the Province of Alagoas in the second half of the nineteenth century, and the main actions of physicians Sanitarians, amid the epidemiological outbreaks, as well as the changes in customs proposes by medical thought in this period.FAPEAL - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas
Sabe-se que as epidemias mudaram o cotidiano das populações trazendo o medo da morte como companheira de milhares de indivíduos em várias Províncias do Brasil na segunda metade do século XIX. Assim, um conjunto de ações dos governos das províncias tendo como protagonistas os médicos higienistas foram ampliados através das Juntas de Higiene Pública que buscavam operar visitas às embarcações, aos mercados, armazéns, casas e em todos os espaços, e estabelecimentos que pudessem provocar danos à saúde pública na concepção de tais homens da ciência. Neste sentido este estudo intitulado: A ordem médica sobre o alagadiço: Higienismo e Epidemias na Alagoas Imperial (1850-1882) têm como objetivo compreender o impacto causado pelas epidemias na Província de Alagoas na segunda metade do século XIX, e as principais ações dos médicos sanitaristas, em meio aos surtos epidemiológicos, como também as mudanças nos costumes propostas pelo pensamento médico neste período.
Books on the topic "Epidemics – History"
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Epidemics and Pandemics. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008.
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Wills, Christopher. Plagues: Their origins, history and future. London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 1997.
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Wills, Christopher. Plagues: Their origins, history and future. London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 1997.
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Watts, S. J. Epidemics and history: Disease, power, and imperialism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
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Wen yi de wen hua shi: The cultural history of pestilence. Beijing: Xin xing chu ban she, 2005.
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Hays, J. N. Epidemics and pandemics: Their impacts on human history. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
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Poisons of the past: Molds, epidemics, and history. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
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Arratia, Leticia González. 1918: La epidemia de influenza española en la Comarca Lagunera : una crónica. Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico: Dirección Municipal de Cultura, 2003.
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Bray, R. S. Armies of pestilence: The effects of pandemics on history. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1996.
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Lampton, Christopher. Epidemic. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1992.
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Bacaër, Nicolas. "Percolation and epidemics (1957)." In A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics, 121–26. London: Springer London, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_22.
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Ayres, Robert U. "The Eco-Footprint of Material Wealth: Pollution, Climate Change, and Epidemics." In The History and Future of Technology, 559–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71393-5_21.
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Curtis, Daniel R. "7 All equal in the presence of death? Epidemics and redistribution in the pre-industrial period." In Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area, 123–42. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.corn-eb.5.121951.
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Angelakis, Emmanouil, Yassina Bechah, and Didier Raoult. "The History of Epidemic Typhus." In Paleomicrobiology of Humans, 81–92. Washington, DC, USA: ASM Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/9781555819170.ch9.
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Hope-Simpson, R. Edgar. "The Natural History of Human Influenza." In The Transmission of Epidemic Influenza, 225–42. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2385-1_18.
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Mehlhorn, Heinz. "Malaria: History of a Worldwide Epidemic." In Encyclopedia of Parasitology, 1536–40. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43978-4_4042.
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Mehlhorn, Heinz. "Malaria: History of a Worldwide Epidemic." In Encyclopedia of Parasitology, 1–5. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_4042-1.
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Fairhead, James. "Postscript: Epidemic History and the Ebola Present." In Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion, 213–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62929-2_9.
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Spinage, Clive A. "Epidemic Disease in African History II: Viral Diseases." In African Ecology, 1229–72. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22872-8_26.
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Iijima, Wataru. "A Hidden History of Malaria in 20th Century Japan." In Epidemien und Pandemien in historischer Perspektive, 355–67. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13875-2_26.
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Öksüz, Hatice. "Measures Against the Pandemic as the Panoptical Eye of the Power: The Example of Coronavirus Pandemic." In COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS. ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17932/ctcspc.21/ctc21.019.
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Epidemics threatened the daily life activities of human societies in certain periods of history. Epidemic diseases, known as disasters that resulted in the death of millions of people, have always been issues that occupy humanity, to be detected from the moment they emerged and to seek solutions to end the epidemic. Having knowledge means having power. Therefore, the easiest way to retain information is through surveillance. Considering the history of epidemic diseases, it is seen that surveillance practices are frequently used. In the information society that emerged with new communication technologies, it is seen that individuals voluntarily participate in surveillance and the walls of the prison have changed by demolishing. Covid-19, which rapidly increased in coronavirus cases and turned into a global epidemic, is known to increase the use of surveillance practices by all states globally to control the epidemic. Fear of the epidemic in societies has become considerable than the privacy of personal data, and their voluntary participation in these practices has been a matter of concern. This consent-based process brings with it criticisms of legitimizing the surveillance society, which has been at the center of discussions since the past. Surveillance played an important role in the rise of totalitarian regimes. The legitimacy of a supervised social structure will accelerate the rise of totalitarian regimes, depriving people of living in an unlimited but self- controlled prison.
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ROHRBACH, Wolfgang. "PANDEMIJE I POLITIKA OSIGURANjA KROZ VREME." In MODERNE TEHNOLOGIJE, NOVI I TRADICIONALNI RIZICI U OSIGURANjU. Association for Insurance Law of Serbia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/xxsav21.132r.
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Th e corona pandemic is incredible and, allegedly, a new phenomenon for many Europeans. Th at is why few people know the history of European pandemics. Th e lack of interest (disinterest) in historical development is due to the misconception of many experts. Preventive care and advances in medicine and technology always require only “looking ahead”. Th is (future-oriented) advanced way of thinking and acting meant that any disease that has epidemic proportions can, in the shortest possible time, be “defeated”. However, history shows that in Europe, from the Middle Ages until today, not a century has passed without epidemics or pandemics, and that signifi cant lessons and conclusions for the future could be drawn from any such crisis. Since the 18th century, development has tended more and more towards an insurance-oriented health and social policy, which in the 19th century was called insurance policy. By combining traditional experience with new or modifi ed concepts based on the principle of “preserving tradition, shaping the future”, the insurance industry can adapt to the new requirements of health and social policy, even in a crisis caused by the coronavirus. In this case, there is digitization, with the help of which it is possible to network with new studies and data, in order to improve quality.
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Ceylan, Yağmur. "Reflections of Epidemic Diseases in Dystopic Works: An Example of "An Trial of Blindness"." In COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS. ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17932/ctcspc.21/ctc21.011.
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Throughout human history of mankind, many epidemics have arisen, and these diseases have been frequently the subject of novels and movies. The spread of the Covid-19 virus has caused the works on epidemic diseases to come back to the agenda and it has caused to be reconsidered for this issue in the new period works. One of these literary works, the novel “Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira” (Blindness) which is written by Saramago in 1995, is essentially a dystopian work that seeks an answer to “Well, what if all people suddenly went blind for no reason?”. While the author deals with the conflicts in the modern world, the collapse of conscience and moral values through the image of blindness, at the same time he is striving to give aesthetic pleasure to the reader. The work, which has also been adapted to cinema with the same name, maintains actuality even today. This study consists of comparison between the novel “Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira” (Blindness) and the movie Blindness (2008) which was originally adapted to the novel. Literature review, textual analysis and content analysis were used as methods. The comparison is based on the discussion of the social effects of the COVID-19 virus which emerged in 2020 and spread all over the world.
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Hua, Ting, Chandan K. Reddy, Lei Zhang, Lijing Wang, Liang Zhao, Chang-Tien Lu, and Naren Ramakrishnan. "Social Media based Simulation Models for Understanding Disease Dynamics." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/528.
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In this modern era, infectious diseases, such as H1N1, SARS, and Ebola, are spreading much faster than any time in history. Efficient approaches are therefore desired to monitor and track the diffusion of these deadly epidemics. Traditional computational epidemiology models are able to capture the disease spreading trends through contact network, however, one unable to provide timely updates via real-world data. In contrast, techniques focusing on emerging social media platforms can collect and monitor real-time disease data, but do not provide an understanding of the underlying dynamics of ailment propagation. To achieve efficient and accurate real-time disease prediction, the framework proposed in this paper combines the strength of social media mining and computational epidemiology. Specifically, individual health status is first learned from user's online posts through Bayesian inference, disease parameters are then extracted for the computational models at population-level, and the outputs of computational epidemiology model are inversely fed into social media data based models for further performance improvement. In various experiments, our proposed model outperforms current disease forecasting approaches with better accuracy and more stability.
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Gamberini, Giorgio, Francesco Giudici, Elena Pagani, and Gian Paolo Rossi. "Impact of history on epidemic broadcast in DTNs." In 2008 1st IFIP Wireless Days (WD). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/wd.2008.4812838.
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Vallis, Carmen. "Writing against the tide." In 25th Australasian Association of Writing Programs Conference 2020. Australasian Association of Writing Programs, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32613/acp/2020.73.
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A tide of conservatism is rising. Despite bushfires and a global epidemic, many are unwilling or unable to grapple with the facts behind these catastrophes. What is not said drifts in and out of public consciousness. In present silences and lacunae, past stories wait to be told anew. In this presentation, I reflect on discontinuity and continuity in the curious silence around the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era in Queensland history, a time remembered for corrupt politicians and cops, but otherwise culturally (and conveniently) forgotten in literary fiction. I discuss my creative response to this era, and outline processes that are saving me from drowning in entwined political, cultural and personal silences as I write an exegesis and novel.
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Wang, Yuan, Liping Huang, Sanli Fu, Xueyong Ding, Liangcheng Wang, and Liansheng Wang. "Exploration on Real Time Interactive Teaching Reform of History of Physical Discovery Course in Post Epidemic Period." In 6th International Conference on Education Reform and Modern Management (ERMM 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210513.009.
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Parry, Peter. "2 A history of the ‘paediatric bipolar disorder’ epidemic: driving forces, iatrogenic consequences and lessons for psychiatric nosology." In Preventing Overdiagnosis Abstracts, December 2019, Sydney, Australia. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2019-pod.16.
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Szymaniec, Piotr. "The epidemic and the law. Some reflections from the point of view of history and philosophy of law." In Právne rozpravy on-screen II. Belianum. Vydavateľstvo Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/pros.13.11.2020.sdtsp.40-49.
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Softaoğlu, Hidayet. "Unhuman Entities that Shaped a Century: Non- Anthropocentric Analysis of the Case of Great Stink and Pandemic, Victorian London." In 4th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism – Full book proceedings of ICCAUA2020, 20-21 May 2021. Alanya Hamdullah Emin Paşa University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.38027/iccaua2021268n5.
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The history of architectural and urban design has expanded its scope and started adopting new philosophical approaches from other disciplines to explore the built environment. Theorist discusses whether we still live in a humanist world where a human being has more priority over the unhuman things or not to answer that; should we design architecture and urban within an anthropocentric approach. As a recent pandemic show, things that are not human, like animals or viruses, could control and navigate a new style of living. This research will introduce Bruno Latour's ANT and Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) as a new constructive method to analyse how human and unhuman bodies are equally the affective actors of daily practices in the urban realm. 19th-century Great Stink and epidemic in Victorian London will be a case study to picture urban dwellers of London that shaped determined the destiny of health and hygiene of London in 1858.
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Boruchowicz, Cynthia, Florencia López Bóo, Benjamin Roseth, and Luis Tejerina. Default Options: A Powerful Behavioral Tool to Increase COVID-19 Contact Tracing App Acceptance in Latin America? Inter-American Development Bank, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002983.
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Being able to follow the chain of contagion of COVID-19 is important to help save lives and control the epidemic without sustained costly lockdowns. This is especially relevant in Latin America, where economic contractions have already been the largest in the regions history. Given the high rates of transmission of COVID-19, relying only in manual contact tracing might be infeasible. Acceptability and uptake of contact tracing apps with exposure notifications is key for the implementation the “test, trace and treat” triad. In the first study of its kind in Latin America, we find that for a nationally representative sample of 10 countries, an opt-out regime with automatic installation significantly increases the probability of acceptance of such apps in almost 22 p.p. compared to an opt-in regime with voluntary installation. This triples the size and is of opposite sign of the effect found in Europe and the United States. We see that an opt-out regime is more effective in increasing acceptability in South America compared to Central America and Mexico; for those who claim not to trust the national government; and for those who do not use their smartphones for financial transactions. The severity of the pandemic at the place of residence does not seem to affect the effectiveness of the opt-out regime versus an opt-in one, but feeling personally at risk does increase the willingness to accept contact tracing apps with exposure notifications in general. These results can shed light on the use of default options in public health in the context of a pandemic in Latin America.