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- Title
¿Son éstos tiempos de peste?
- Authors
Alvar, Jorge
- Abstract
Pandemics have existed since the dawn of humanity as a result of the space that is shared between microorganisms and humans. A series of determinants, such as poverty, ignorance and lack of hygiene favored them then and, today, these circumstances continue to exist in many countries. In the present study, three pandemics are reviewed to exemplify their causes at each time --also the successes-- and to be able to reflect on the reasons for the current pandemics. But, in addition, at the present time there are other reasons that favor them, such as overpopulation, environmental aggression and the speed of international travel. The magnitude of these new determinants have led to the change of geological era in the course of a few thousand years, having opened the way to the Anthropocene. Its consequences can be analyzed disease by disease, but for scholars it must be understood as a whole, a paradigm shift in what we understand as health and that will lead to unpredictable consequences if measures are not taken in time.
- Subjects
AGGRESSION (International law); PANDEMICS; INTERNATIONAL travel; OVERPOPULATION; HYGIENE
- Publication
EU-topías: A Journal on Interculturality, Communication & European Studies, 2022, Vol 24, p107
- ISSN
2174-8454
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7203/eutopias.24.25533