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When the present can help refine interpretations of the past: covid-19 in real time and the historiography of epidemics
These notes address the proliferation of discourses with improvised, uninformed, apocalyptic and voluntarist approaches. They emphasize issues such as the widespread ignorance about the history of epidemics, and the inability to deal with the uncertainties that reign during pandemic times, as well a...
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Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10494971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37672429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702023000100041 |
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description | These notes address the proliferation of discourses with improvised, uninformed, apocalyptic and voluntarist approaches. They emphasize issues such as the widespread ignorance about the history of epidemics, and the inability to deal with the uncertainties that reign during pandemic times, as well as the announcements that this extraordinary health/sanitary event would produce a profound watershed in all walks of life and in all corners of the world. Finally, these notes seek to point out how the present can illuminate the study of the past – or, more personally, what I think I have learned as a historian in the times of the covid-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-104949712023-09-12 When the present can help refine interpretations of the past: covid-19 in real time and the historiography of epidemics Armus, Diego Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos Nota De Investigación These notes address the proliferation of discourses with improvised, uninformed, apocalyptic and voluntarist approaches. They emphasize issues such as the widespread ignorance about the history of epidemics, and the inability to deal with the uncertainties that reign during pandemic times, as well as the announcements that this extraordinary health/sanitary event would produce a profound watershed in all walks of life and in all corners of the world. Finally, these notes seek to point out how the present can illuminate the study of the past – or, more personally, what I think I have learned as a historian in the times of the covid-19 pandemic. Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 2023-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10494971/ /pubmed/37672429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702023000100041 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Nota De Investigación Armus, Diego When the present can help refine interpretations of the past: covid-19 in real time and the historiography of epidemics |
title | When the present can help refine interpretations of the past:
covid-19 in real time and the historiography of epidemics |
title_full | When the present can help refine interpretations of the past:
covid-19 in real time and the historiography of epidemics |
title_fullStr | When the present can help refine interpretations of the past:
covid-19 in real time and the historiography of epidemics |
title_full_unstemmed | When the present can help refine interpretations of the past:
covid-19 in real time and the historiography of epidemics |
title_short | When the present can help refine interpretations of the past:
covid-19 in real time and the historiography of epidemics |
title_sort | when the present can help refine interpretations of the past:
covid-19 in real time and the historiography of epidemics |
topic | Nota De Investigación |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10494971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37672429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702023000100041 |
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