Cholera: tackling the epidemic in a hostile environment

<p><em>The</em><em> </em><em>Painted</em><em> </em><em>Veil</em><em> </em>(2006) is a love story which takes place in the nineteen twenties, between an Englishman, Dr Walter Fane, a bacteriologist, and Kitty, an English up...

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Main Author: Carlota GONZÁLEZ PÓZEGA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2015-07-01
Series:Revista de Medicina y Cine / Journal of Medicine and Movies
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Online Access:https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/medicina_y_cine/article/view/13146
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description <p><em>The</em><em> </em><em>Painted</em><em> </em><em>Veil</em><em> </em>(2006) is a love story which takes place in the nineteen twenties, between an Englishman, Dr Walter Fane, a bacteriologist, and Kitty, an English upper class girl, who marry for convenience hardly knowing each other. Soon after the wedding they move to Shangai, where Walter is in charge of a government laboratory. Also in Shangai Kitty meets Charles, a married vice consul with whom she has an affair. When Walter discovers that his wife has been unfaithful to him he threatens to divorce her if she refuses to go with him to a village in Inner China, where there is an outbreak of cholera and where his help is required. They settle on the outskirts of Mei?tan?fu. The relationship between Walter and kitty cannot go worse; they hardly talk to each other, and while Walter is working day and night, trying to stop the spread of cholera, Kitty feels lonely and useless . One day she visits a group of French nuns who collaborate in the hospital and run an orphanage, in which Kitty is finally able to help as a music teacher. The fight against cholera is arduous: customs, religion, and politics make the doctor’s work even harder. It is then that Walter and Kitty discover qualities in each other that they did not know of; finally love and reconciliation emerge. When it seems that the outbreak of cholera is already under control, people from downstream villages, where there is no doctor, arrive. Walter feels obliged to set up a refugee camp on the outskirts of the city, where he finally contracts cholera and dies.</p>
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spelling doaj.art-bc9d67be3aa14a1aa49afee77ffb69eb2022-12-21T17:25:14ZengEdiciones Universidad de SalamancaRevista de Medicina y Cine / Journal of Medicine and Movies1885-52102015-07-01112828612145Cholera: tackling the epidemic in a hostile environmentCarlota GONZÁLEZ PÓZEGA0Universidad de Salamanca<p><em>The</em><em> </em><em>Painted</em><em> </em><em>Veil</em><em> </em>(2006) is a love story which takes place in the nineteen twenties, between an Englishman, Dr Walter Fane, a bacteriologist, and Kitty, an English upper class girl, who marry for convenience hardly knowing each other. Soon after the wedding they move to Shangai, where Walter is in charge of a government laboratory. Also in Shangai Kitty meets Charles, a married vice consul with whom she has an affair. When Walter discovers that his wife has been unfaithful to him he threatens to divorce her if she refuses to go with him to a village in Inner China, where there is an outbreak of cholera and where his help is required. They settle on the outskirts of Mei?tan?fu. The relationship between Walter and kitty cannot go worse; they hardly talk to each other, and while Walter is working day and night, trying to stop the spread of cholera, Kitty feels lonely and useless . One day she visits a group of French nuns who collaborate in the hospital and run an orphanage, in which Kitty is finally able to help as a music teacher. The fight against cholera is arduous: customs, religion, and politics make the doctor’s work even harder. It is then that Walter and Kitty discover qualities in each other that they did not know of; finally love and reconciliation emerge. When it seems that the outbreak of cholera is already under control, people from downstream villages, where there is no doctor, arrive. Walter feels obliged to set up a refugee camp on the outskirts of the city, where he finally contracts cholera and dies.</p>https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/medicina_y_cine/article/view/13146cólerareligiónaguaepidemiapolítica
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Cholera: tackling the epidemic in a hostile environment
Revista de Medicina y Cine / Journal of Medicine and Movies
cólera
religión
agua
epidemia
política
title Cholera: tackling the epidemic in a hostile environment
title_full Cholera: tackling the epidemic in a hostile environment
title_fullStr Cholera: tackling the epidemic in a hostile environment
title_full_unstemmed Cholera: tackling the epidemic in a hostile environment
title_short Cholera: tackling the epidemic in a hostile environment
title_sort cholera tackling the epidemic in a hostile environment
topic cólera
religión
agua
epidemia
política
url https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/medicina_y_cine/article/view/13146
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