Lezione 1.2
Schema della sezione
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26 maggio 2020 - ore 15:00
Guido Abbattista
Come epidemie e pandemie dipendono dalla storia e ne cambiano il corso
Scomodi compagni di viaggio: attraverso il tempo e lo spazio con batteri e virus. Riflessioni su come i grandi eventi epidemici e pandemici siano strettamente connessi a cambiamenti epocali della storia dell'umanità e abbiano profondamente influenzato le forme della globalizzazione, dal Neolitico al Covid-19
MATERIALI:
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Una utile ricapitolazione audiovisiva delle principali epidemie e pandemie che hanno caratterizzato la storia dell'umanità, realizzata da GeoHistory Today
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"Plagues and epidemics have ravaged humanity throughout its existence, often changing the course of history." Un articolo che ripercorre per sommi capi alcuni dei più drammatici eventi epidemici della storia dell'umanità. Nella medesima pagina si trova una esposizione della stessa materia mediante un video.
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This course consists of an international analysis of the impact of epidemic diseases on western society and culture from the bubonic plague to HIV/AIDS and the recent experience of SARS and swine flu. Leading themes include: infectious disease and its impact on society; the development of public health measures; the role of medical ethics; the genre of plague literature; the social reactions of mass hysteria and violence; the rise of the germ theory of disease; the development of tropical medicine; a comparison of the social, cultural, and historical impact of major infectious diseases; and the issue of emerging and re-emerging diseases.
Frank Snowden is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of History at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University in 1975. His books include Violence and Great Estates in the South of Italy: Apulia, 1900-1922 (1984); The Fascist Revolution in Tuscany, 1919-1922 (1989); Naples in the Times of Cholera (1995) and The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962 (2006) [tr. it. Torino, Einaudi, 2008]. Conquest was awarded the Gustav Ranis Prize from the MacMillan Center at Yale in 2007, the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association, and the 2008 Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine.
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Paolo Mazzarello, professore ordinario di Storia della Medicina all'Università di Pavia, "Le epidemie nella storia", 7 aprile 2020, videoconversazione di 19 minuti
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La rivista storica online Cromohs dedica alcuni approfondmenti al tema delle epidemie e pandemie nella storia (aprire: Menu-->Podcasts). Di seguito i link diretti a due podcasts sull'argomento
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Fa parte di Contagion - A Podcast Series on Circulation and Pandemic Threats Throughout History
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Fa parte di "Contagion - A Podcast Series on Circulation and Pandemic Threats Throughout History"
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Fa parte di Cromohs: Contagion - A Podcast Series on Circulation and Pandemic Threats Throughout History
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In our digital lecture series De Gruyter Corona Talks: Thinking in a State of Exception we are going to speak with scholars from various disciplines about the different intellectual approaches to take when trying to understand the effects of this global pandemic. Join us every thursday at 6pm on YouTube for the upcoming events
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Da Jared Diamond, Armi acciaio e malattie. Breve storia del mondo negli ultimi tredicimila anni (Torino: Einaudi, 1997):
- Luca e Francesco Cavalli Sforza, "Introduzione"
- "Prologo. La domanda di Yali"
- "Cap. XI. Il dono fatale del bestiame"
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David Quammen, "Uomini, animali, zoonosi", in Spillover. L'evoluzione delle pandemie, Milano, Adelphi, 2014, pp.
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Massimo Livi Bacci, "La catastrofe degli indios d'America: microbi antichi, popolazioni nuove", in Storia minima della popolazione del mondo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002, pp. 68-78
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Alexander Russell, The Natural History of Aleppo, 1756:
2nd edition, London 1794, Book V, "Of the Weather and Epidemic Diseases", pp. 273-333; Book VI, "Of the Plague", pp. 335-387
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, "Un concept: L'unification microbienne du monde (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)", in Revue Suisse d'Histoire, 23, 1973, n. 4, pp. 627-696
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The coronavirus pandemic has rapidly changed our world. In response to this challenge, we are publishing the pamphlet 13 Perspectives On The Pandemic: Thinking In A State Of Exception. This free publication provides a virtual space for thinkers in the humanities to historically embed and critically interrogate our response to the Covid-19 crisis. We hope it will become a useful part of the academic response to reflect the current moment.
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Here’s a snapshot of some of the big ideas discussed in the pamphlet:
- People want more than statistics when the scale of the crisis calls out for a moral or religious response
- This virus may be the covert midwife of authoritarian regimes if we are not careful
- In China, the idea of the monolingual ideology (so prominent in West) was ditched in 48 hours
- In Europe, the pandemic has amplified the second colonial drain of skills by employing foreign-trained and foreign-born doctors, nurses and medical staff
- The area of peak globalization is not over
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