The History of Medicine in Epidemic Diseases: Between Reality and Imagination
Abstract In this work we presented a brief essay of the epidemics or pandemics that took place in the Western world and from which we have reliable documentation from the fourteenth century to the present moment. In the same vein we say that we are immersed in the epidemic of the 21st century as a direct consequence of the economic bonanza we are going through. In our case the scenario is applied to Spain and Asturias; reflecting the number of deaths. The struggle for life with the food deficiencies that constantly engrifíed humanity until the eighteenth century that nullify any possibility of innate defense against evil, the sudden death of bubonic plague, the deformations of smalllpox, etc. occupy the hard part, but it is the reality of the human path. In the background we expose a series of films or novels correlated with outbreaks. This is pure fantasy. We believe that both visions can be complemented because fear, hatred of the foreigner, insecurity about future, isolation, the reflection of flight, the fear of death or the search for a healing remedy are real situations in both worlds.
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2. Ramírez Martín SM. El niño y la vacura de la viruela rumbo a América: La Real Expedición Filantrópica de la V (1803-1806). Rev Complut Hist Am. 2003; 29: 77-101.
3. Ontoso Picón D. La Peste (1992). De Albert Camus a Luis Puenzo. Rev Med Cine 2006; 2(1): 3-9.
4. Caravias Martín F. La amenaza de las plagas: Pánico en las calles (1950). Rev Med Cine 2006; 2(3): 89-95.
5. García Sánchez JE, García Sánchez E. La viruela y el cine histórico. Rev Med Cine 2013; 9(3): 105-6.
6. Alcamí J. Introducción: Una breve historia del sida. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2008;26 (Supl 11):1-4.
7. Quammen D. Contagio. La evolución de las pandemias. Barcelona: Editorial Debate, 2020.
Sánchez Fernández, L. V., & Pipa Muñiz, C. (2021). The History of Medicine in Epidemic Diseases: Between Reality and Imagination. Journal of Medicine and Movies, 16(e), 195–205. https://doi.org/10.14201/rmc202016e195205
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