, Contagion, And Steven Soderbergh's Year Of Wonders

Sometimes the missteps of the medical community went so far as to cause inadvertent harm. Jacme D’agramont, physician and professor, writes in his “Regiment de preservacio a epidimia o pestiliencia e mortaldats” of the dangers of bathing because it opens one’s pores and “through these pores corrupt air enters and has a powerful influence upon our body and on our humors.” (Aberth, 1186). The entire period was wrought with novelty cures and hypotheses about overcoming the plague, and so often these approaches failed that eventually the people would find solace wherever they could. Even art had a voice in coping with the Black Death. Much of the art was not only therapeutic for the artists and those who enjoyed them but they serve as an insight into the shared setiments of the time. These pieces understandably emphasize death and its inevitability as a primary theme. While the real victor over the plague turned out to be time, this perspective on conflict serves as a testament to the long-suffering determination of humanity to survive and thrive.

The Black Plague, one of the most devastating out breaks in history, is an historical event brought about with a great depression throughout Europe. This plague brought out the worst in mankind during the time the plague ran its course. How do people behave, when there environment becomes life threatening? (Herlihy, 18). The Black Death accounted for nearly one third of the deaths in Europe. Due to the death of many people there were severe shortages in labors, during these dreadful times. There were riots throughout Europe, and the great mortality brought on by the plague ripped society apart. Individuals were fearful searching for explanation, but in the end the plague gave rise to the survivors such as

The book When Plague Strikes, is about 3 deadly diseases. It 's about the Black Death, Smallpox, and AIDS. Each of these diseases can cause a serious outrage of death. The book also tells about how doctors try to come up with treatments, medicines, and antibiotics to try and cure these diseases. All these diseases got the best out of everyone. Some people reacted differently than others with these diseases. All the diseases came in play in A. D. 1347, when the Black Death broke out for the first time in what’s today is know. As southern Ukraine.

Norman F. Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague (New York: Harper Collins First Perennial edition, 2001) examines how the bubonic plague, or Black Death, affected Europe in the fourteenth century. Cantor recounts specific events in the time leading up to the plague, during the plague, and in the aftermath of the plague. He wrote the book to relate the experiences of victims and survivors and to illustrate the impact that the plague had on the government, families, religion, the social structure, and art.

The Spanish flu and the plague are both examples of how a new sickness is introduced in to a environment and can have dramatic effects on the people in the area and change things the way that people can try to fight wars.

Diseases have been categorized as under a derogatory and lamentable category. However, Dr.Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince approach diseases from a different view in their scientific book Survival of the Sickest . They discuss that if diseases weren 't helpful, shouldn 't they have been eliminated through natural selection or shouldn 't humans have developed resistance to them through the use of evolution? Moalem and Prince answer the questions by going back in time and analyzing the uses of diseases, and come across surprises that may help humans in the future as they may have in the past. Though Moalem and Prince discussed many diseases in their book Survival of the Sickest, three diseases really stood out.

The plague has taken the lives of many unfortunate people. These has severely affected our lives. There are very few people available to do work. This is because several people have died, some are caring for those who are sick, and still others that refuse to come outside to make sure they don’t get sick. Those who still are working deserve more because they do extra work. Consequently, the lower class is revolting and progressing upward on the social hierarchy. The cause of the Black Death is disputed; however, several groups are being blamed for its cause. There are also several other reasons being

The book The Eleventh Plague is about a teenager named Stephen Quinn who was born after a nuclear war between the United States and China. Planet earth is now full of sick people and diseases. Two-thirds of Earth’s population was killed by a variation of the Influenza, known as “The Eleventh Plague”. The book starts off immediately after the death of Stephen’s grandfather. After burying his grandfather, Stephen and his father continue their journey to survive.

The old nursery rhyme “Ring around the Rosie” comes with many explanations relating to the Black Death and its course throughout Europe and Asia. Why is it that this old nursery rhyme, said to have been circulating since the last major epidemic of the Plague in 1665, is still being sung by countless amounts of people each day? This nursery rhyme and its continuation to appear in our childhoods and daily lives shows exactly how much the plague impacted today’s society socially, economically, religiously, and even philosophically. However, some may argue that the Plague was not related in any way, shape or form to present day society or any other period in time.

The book consistently mentions regarding the depressing phenomenon of the excruciating epidemic in the pages of 47, 74 , 202-204, 243-247. ‘... Blueridge or Lake or Winter or Alta, sectors all recently infected by the plague.’ However, these unfortunate civilians are assuming that the epidemic is infecting them as it is very contagious. When in reality, “...I always thought the plagues were spontaneous. They’re not. … The pump the virus into the slum sector through a series of underground pipe.” Yet, they are being gullible enough to believe that the government has no correlation to the death of the virus because of the propaganda the government is distributing to manipulate them. Nevertheless, the scientists are mutating the virus in order to evolve it to increase how lethal the plague is. ‘... every time an interesting new virus appears into the meat factories, the scientists take samples and craft them into viruses that can infect humans.’ Consequently, due to the manipulation through lies it cause destruction that is, murdering thousands of citizens in

In today’s society we all have fears, for instance many fear things like spiders, heights, or public speaking. Just like in “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, one fear most everyone has is disease. Diseases today such as Hepatitis C, AIDS, cancer, liver disease, tuberculosis and so many more change so many lives every day.

One of the great impacts of 14th century was Black Death, which end up with huge devastation throughout the half part of the world. In contrast, one of the pandemic like AIDS is considerable to most destructive disease in this present-day. Both diseases, remarked horridly in humankind and throughout the world. Even though, both Black Death and AIDS played dangerous role in over the world and conveying different controversy, but both of these establish the new aspect of the society and greatly impacted on Globalization.

The Great Plague was a pandemic that killed many people, and for the people from the olden times the plague equaled painful death; it was torture. As a result, many people categorize ‘the Great Plague’ as a catastrophe that had caused huge damage in Europe, but without this epidemic, we many not have had substantial changes that lead us to the modern day we have now.

The Plague (French, La Peste) is a novel written by Albert Camus that is about an epidemic of bubonic plague. The Plague is set in a small Mediterranean town in North Africa called Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, one of the main characters, describes it as an ugly town. Oran’s inhabitants are boring people who appear to live, for the most part, habitual lives. The main focus of the town is money. “…everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. Our citizens work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich. Their chief interest is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, 'doing business’” (Camus 4). The citizens’ unawareness of life’s riches and pleasures show their susceptibility to the oncoming plague.

Contagion is a movie that was released in 2011 which is based on fear, greed, heroism and greed and involves a lot of sick people. This movie is very scary and provides lessons in the field of virology and epidemiology. The movie is set at ever-changing challenges as well as threats of microbial origin that lead to the origin of casualties who vary from few individuals to lots and lots of millions of people. It has been described as a global pandemic as it affected many people all over the world. The outbreak of the disease has been depicted from the rise, vaccination and the prevention methods of a new disease.