A historical narrative on pandemic Patterns of behavior and belief
Given the fractured reality of pandemic, the people’s history needs to be written and understood. This paper provides a historical narrative on pandemics based on a literature review and makes inferences from the past and present. This narrative also reflects the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the wor...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2022-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Global Faultlines |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/jglobfaul.9.1.0021 |
| Summary: | Given the fractured reality of pandemic, the people’s history needs to be written and understood. This paper provides a historical narrative on pandemics based on a literature review and makes inferences from the past and present. This narrative also reflects the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the world and India. The narratives provide a novel perspective to understand public health practices in a global context. It suggests the need for a more synchronized health response in pandemics while highlighting the uncertainties and challenges of using historical diseases as comparisons for the COVID-19 pandemic. The emphasis is on learning from historical evidence and ascertaining how these retrospective diagnoses help make arguments about health and illness in our present moment. |
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| ISSN: | 2397-7825 2054-2089 |