HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Abdominal Pain, Foodborne Illness, Open-Pit Mining
7 Jan 2018
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Pandemic: an epidemic of infectious disease spreading in large geographic area: the map of cholera is a also a map of poverty. Spreads to indonesia, china and all the way to the caspian sea: often attributed to be discriminatory based off race and social class. Scavengers are the poor, look for copper and valuables: crawl through londons sewers. Seen to perform social function, keep city clean: represent the londons sanitary conditions, represent the link between disease and poverty, map drawn; represent poverty and socio-economic status, morality, region: soho in london. Soho is designed to contain and hide poverty. Primary understanding of disease: miasma theory: obnoxious form of air, airborne. Ships are examined to prove they are healthy: london response: miasma theory dominant, launch campaign to clean up city, clean up river, clean up neighbourhoods by emptying sewer pits dump in river.
