Global Epidemics
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This review offers an overview of several devastating historical epidemics and pandemics. The first pandemic ravaging the Middle East and Ancient Egypt was an unidentified “plague” in the late Bronze Age. The plague of Athens was... more
This review offers an overview of several devastating historical epidemics and pandemics. The first pandemic ravaging the Middle East and Ancient Egypt was an unidentified “plague” in the late Bronze Age. The plague of Athens was... more
This essay appears as the Preface to: *Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death*, ed. Monica H. Green (Kalamazoo, MI, and Bradford, UK: Arc-Medieval Press, 2015), pp. ix-xx. This is the HARDBOUND edition of... more
The authors suggest to view the origins of Islam against the background of the 6th century AD Arabian socio-ecological crisis whose model is specified in the paper through the study of cli-matological, seismological, volcanological and... more
Renata Schiavo (2020): Advocacy, community engagement and cross-sectoral collaborations as key strategies during COVID-19 response and beyond. New directions for a new decade. Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and... more
محاولة لاستشراف وفهم أثر جائحة كورنا على الاقتصاد الدولي والأقليمي
فرص وتهديدات ومخاطر.
فرص وتهديدات ومخاطر.
Beginning in the early 1990s, a new manner of articulating the threat posed by epidemics of infectious diseases took shape. ‘Global health security’ (GHS) emerged as a novel epistemic space as a response to the perceived threats posed... more
Dystopian movies are often the product of both creativity and analytics. As a result, they offer thought provoking reflections on how the world might turn into a place of desolation and misfortune if we do not recognize and intervene on... more
-----ÖZET: Yirminci yüzyıl başından bu yana dünyada respiratuvar virüslerden kaynaklanan beş pandemi gerçekleşmiştir. Bunlardan ilk dördü grip (İnfluenza A) virüslerinden kaynaklanmışken halihazırda sürmekte olan COVID-19 pandemisi bir... more
Il volume esamina il regime internazionale di controllo delle malattie infettive come disciplinato dal Regolamento sanitario internazionale dell'OMS, analizzando lo stretto rapporto intercorrente tra salute pubblica e diritti umani e tra... more
This article discusses national and local strategies for confronting COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis sheds light on how societal context, institutional arrangements, knowledge culture, and technology deployment manifest in national... more
This review offers an overview of several devastating historical epidemics and pandemics. The first pandemic ravaging the Middle East and Ancient Egypt was an unidentified "plague" in the late Bronze Age. The plague of Athens was... more
The COVID19 crisis of early 2020 reveals some of the key features of contemporary globalization processes. It is driven by global mobility patterns, and control over these patterns is the central tool for containing the epidemic. The... more
In the past decade and a half, the findings of molecular microbiology have effected a transformation in our understanding the Black Death and its history. The question 'What was it?' has been decisively resolved in favor of the pathogen... more
Learning Objective 5.3 in "Ethics in Epidemics, Emergencies and Disasters: Research, Surveillance and Patient Care" (pgs. 155-162). World Health Organization.
This volume investigates the multifaceted SHAPES (socio-historic, artistic, political, and ecological significance) of global disease. It challenges conventional views of infection and transmission by associating epidemics with ideologies... more
Films illustrate 2 ways that epidemics can affect societies: fear leading to a breakdown in sociability and fear stimulating preservation of tightly held social norms. The first response is often informed by concern over perceived moral... more
Despite the wide applaud about social media’s capacity to allow public participation in content creation and circulation, they do not automatically ensure open and transparent communication because of institutional and cultural... more
Much has already been written on this most recent EVD outbreak—evaluating and dissecting the contributions and failings of the various role-players involved, and considering what can be done differently in future. This article will... more
Na začiatku 30. rokov 19. storočia zasiahla Uhorsko epidémia cholery. Pôvodnou oblasťou jej výskytu bola India, kde v pravidelných cykloch hubila miestne obyvateľstvo. V roku 1824 vôbec prvýkrát prenikla do Ruska. Trvalo niekoľko rokov,... more
Throughout history, religious beliefs have been a primary way of understanding the experience of epidemic disease. This article offers a pan-historical and cross-cultural analysis of such interactions. The first section examines common... more
This Article challenges the conventional understanding that international crises are limited to instances of direct physical violence. Instead, it argues that the disproportionate distribution of infectious diseases like Ebola is a form... more
Final research project to fulfill Master of Intercultural and International Communication at Royal Roads University. Media frame analysis of the Canadian media coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus.
Global epidemics have been always coupled with the phenomenon, reported on an international level, of the so-called responsibility gaps deriving from failure to achieve the minimum punishability thresholds as provided by the domestic... more
Tibetan physicians’ response to the novel coronavirus outbreak and its entry onto the Tibetan plateau demonstrates a newly emerging public face of Tibetan medicine in contemporary times that is characterized by a sense of confidence,... more
Epidemic outbreaks threaten jurisdictions beyond domestic boundaries and affect diverse societal interests. How to properly handle them therefore becomes an issue of interest for all stakeholders and individuals. The two current... more
A história da atuação e do cuidado médico é também a história de perdas humanas com impactos institucionais de largo aspecto. No presente texto, proponho uma olhada reflexiva para eventos de contexto epidêmico ocorridos no passado, com... more
Background: To inform researchers about the methodology and results of epidemic estimation studies performed for COVID-19 epidemic in Iran, we aimed to perform a rapid review. Methods: We searched for and included published articles,... more
Epidemics are the result of the actions of multiple actors, which necessitates a comprehensive allocation of responsibility. However, the traditional framework for responsibility, as well as the emerging norm of the responsibility to... more