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Epidemics - Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS (Hardcover)
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Epidemics - Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS (Hardcover)
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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 twentieth
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, this study traces
epidemics' socio-psychological consequences across time and
discovers a radically different picture: that epidemic diseases
have more often unified societies across class, race, ethnicity,
and religion, spurring self-sacrifice and compassion.
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