
Epidemics
Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
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David Colacci
By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the "other," and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventive measures, as with AIDS during the last two decades of the 20th century.
However, scholars and public intellectuals, especially post-AIDS, have missed a fundamental aspect of the history of epidemics. Instead of sparking hatred and blame, the history of epidemics traced in this study illustrates that more often epidemics inspired compassion and drew communities closer together.
©2018 Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (P)2018 TantorListeners also enjoyed...




















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meh
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Informative but boring
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TLDR; I got really mad at the author's forced narrative that No PeRsEcUtIoN eVeR hApPeNeD eVeR. He is condencending to other scholars/researchers/etc who disagree. The narration is okay enough even if it is boring it is very clear and understood. There is a lot of potential and information here that he buries with his opinion because of documents he has selected and singled out out of the MANY lost documents to history that will never let us know the full story.
Not worth the buy unless you wanna sit there and be lectured about the GOODNESS OF HUMANITY rather than the events and responses.
Eh.
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