[History 2186A/B] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 22 pages long Study Guide!
7 Feb 2017
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Week 2 disease panics in the old world. Disease panics in the old world: the history of epidemic, long-term conditions, short-term triggers, scapegoats. Fairly easy to track watch progress. Hit different groups in different ways depending demographics. Opens social conflict: pressure and stress, generates more panic, someone is blamed, exist beforehand but epidemic blows them out of proportion. Disease strikes any society at any time. Not focus on disease but the hysteria it causes. Disease is part of life: did not try to understand the disease. Measles: no panic, constant killing of people. 1894 plague struck india: cause hysteria, panic, malaria killed more people in india but no panic. Entered through rodents about thousand years ago. Spread by inhaling viral material or by contact through bodily fluid of an infected person. Within 48 hours lesions appear on the body. The plague of athens 430 bce: killed 45% of population, 1241 landed in iceland.
