The Day After the Great Epidemics
From the Bubonic Plague to the Coronavirus
by José Enrique Ruiz‐Domènec
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How have societies dealt with the "day after" the great epidemics?
From the Plague to the Coronavirus, the response of humanity throughout history
In extreme situations, human beings need answers and we look back in history for information. The five moments covered here were key episodes in which the challenge of a major epidemic was followed by a judicious response that opened up a promising future. An epidemic comes when you least expect it, but we are not the first to have suffered one, and history offers us excellent examples that we must take into account when redirecting our situation. The bubonic plague of 542 in Constantinople, the great epidemics brought to the Americas in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, or the Spanish Flu of 1918‐1920 generated a health crisis that is familiar to us today. In these episodes, wise and unwise decisions were made, but in the end societies showed they were up to the task. Today the challenge is set, and history can help us find intelligent and creative solutions that lead to a promising future.
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Author Biography
JOSÉ ENRIQUE RUIZ‐DOMÈNEC is a writer and an academic. He is Professor of Medieval History at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona and editor of the National Geographic History magazine. His latest book is Report On Catalonia (Taurus, 2018).
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© 2020, José Enrique Ruiz‐Domènec
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- Publisher/Imprint Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial / Taurus/Rosa dels Vents
- Publication Date October 2020
- Orginal LanguageCatalan, Spanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788430623785
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 16.90 EUR
- Pages124
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language TitleEl día después de las grandes epidemias
- Copyright Year2020
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