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01.12.2011 | About the Cover
Remembering Daumier’s Blue Period
verfasst von:
David M. Morens
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EcoHealth
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Ausgabe 4/2011
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Excerpt
We continue to be struck by terrible emerging epidemics: AIDS, SARS, pandemic influenza, to name but a few (Morens et al.
2004). And we resist, as we have always resisted, accepting the possibility that such epidemics can or should change us. Historians say, for example, that deadly eighteenth century epidemics of “American Plague” (yellow fever) forever stamped the American character (Krieg
1992), yet, as an American, today I barely remember them and cannot believe my “character” is in any way related. …