المؤلفون: Annalisa D'Ascenzo

المساهمون: D'Ascenzo, Annalisa

مصطلحات موضوعية: The research experience of the COVID-19 Atlas in Italy, in particular the case study on Lazio, has highlighted the desire for a geohistorical in-depth study on the incidence of diseases in the affairs of humanity over the centuries. Since the eras dominated by great empires and structured communication networks, viruses and bacteria have been traveling together with people. First in the Old World, then crossing the oceans towards the New Worlds, infections have taken on global dimensions. Proportions which, today, are made even more evident by the speed of movements and the propagation of phenomena in a planet populated by eight billion people who press on natural ecosystems. Historical sources reveal that, at various scales, diseases have always induced strong social and territorial reactions. The "plagues" have left an apparatus of knowledge, customs and beliefs which, observed today, make us discover how many of the responses longed for to the emergence and full-blown of the new pandemic already existed. At the same time, they show how the removal of danger, connected with not wanting to see it, is a recurring human response. From the examples investigated, repeated contradictory behaviors emerge, harbingers of negative effects, from the use of old rites and beliefs to the refusal of precautions and acquired health knowledge, implemented by both the population and the authorities, which recall the quickly forgotten recent past

Relation: volume:XXXI; issue:2; firstpage:127; lastpage:160; numberofpages:34; journal:GEOSTORIE; https://hdl.handle.net/11590/455491; https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/geostorie/article/view/1279/1258

الاتاحة: https://hdl.handle.net/11590/455491
https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/geostorie/article/view/1279/1258