Pandemics: waves of disease, waves of hate from the Plague of Athens to A.I.D.S.
Pandemics: waves of disease, waves of hate from the Plague of Athens to A.I.D.S.
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2281.2012.00603.x
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发表时间：
2012-11-01
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0.4
通讯作者：
Cohn, Samuel K.
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作者：
Cohn, Samuel K.
这篇文章简要回顾了西方流行病的历史，驳斥了长期以来的假设，即流行病引发了对他人的仇恨和指责，当疾病的起因和治疗方法神秘时，情况会更糟。文章发现，在历史上，指责和仇恨很少与流行病联系在一起。在古代，流行病更多地是将社会团结在一起，而不是像现代社会中流感等一些疾病继续发生那样，将社会分裂。另一方面，霍乱等一些疾病比其他疾病更经常受到指责，甚至在其病原体和传播机制已众所周知之后也引发了暴力。
This article briefly surveys the history of pandemics in the West, contesting long-held assumptions that epidemics sparked hatred and blame of the Other, and that it was worse when diseases were mysterious as to their causes and cures. The article finds that blame and hate were rarely connected with pandemics in history. In antiquity, epidemics more often brought societies together rather than dividing them as continued to happen with some diseases such as influenza in modernity. On the other hand, some diseases such as cholera were more regularly blamed than others and triggered violence even after their agents and mechanisms of transmission had become well known.