Disease and the Other

Epidemic diseases have been existing in human civilizations for thousands years. They raged through human society, spread among different communities, and had a great impact on humankind. Because of these social attributes of epidemics, people often thought diseases come from human themselves. People blamed diseases on “others” who come from different classes, religions, races, ethnicities or nations. As if they can avoid those horrible and sometimes disgraceful diseases by doing that.

Epidemics

 

Epidemics have always played an important role in our history. They are disasters, but they are also part of human civilizations. Every epidemic told a story, which was full of sorrow, evil, horror, but also humanity. Through the comparison of the descriptions of epidemics, we can see how the epidemics raged through the human civilization.