Judeah Auguste University of Alaska Anchorage The Doctors Plague, Sherwin B. Nuland Kraft The Doctors Plague depicts the story of the lifeline of Ignac Semmelweis, a physician in the First Division at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus hospital in Vienna and his discovery of childbed fever. Nuland opens the medical-scientific novel with a fictional story of a young nameless girl who is inching closer to her birth date. From her friend, she learns there are two obstetric divisions, one run by doctors and the other by midwives, advising the soon to be mom to stay clear of medical students. Already foreshadowing being attended by the medical students results in an uncomfortable situation, Nuland leaves the readers with curiosity and the answer to
I am reading Plague, which is the fourth novel in the Gone series, and I am on page 108. I will also be referencing Hunger, which is the third novel in the series, one or two times. Hunger ended with Perdido Beach ablaze during a fight between the mutants and normal. Mary also attempted to commit a mass suicide with the children that she cares for because she thought that dying would take them home, but this fails due to the heroics of Dehra. During the beginning of Plague, an infectious disease infects three girls who all live in the same household, and these girls end up passing away.
The reactions from the Christians and the Muslims to the greatly feared disease, known as the Black Death or the Great Plague were different in several ways. The first Plague was documented from 541 to 544 CE. Known as the Plague of Justinian. The Plague came in three different ways: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. With bubonic being the most common.
One of the biggest summer nuisance would be the mosquito, but more specifically the Ades aegypti mosquito. The Aedes aegypti is the vector for yellow fever and the cause of the numerous deaths. In her book The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic the Shaped Our History, Molly Caldwell Crosby presents the idea that the mosquito is not just the only reason an epidemic occurred in the 18th century. This story accounts for the disease that broke out across the world and nearly destroyed almost all of North America’s population, which some believe could have been avoided by simple quarantine analysis and sanitary methods.
During the mid-fourteenth century, a plague hit Europe. Initially spreading through rats and subsequently fleas, it killed at least one-third of the population of Europe and continued intermittently until the 18th century. There was no known cure at the time, and the bacteria spread very quickly and would kill an infected person within two days, which led to structural public policies, religious, and medical changes in Europe. The plague had an enormous social effect, killing much of the population and encouraging new health reforms, it also had religious effects by attracting the attention of the Catholic Church, and lastly, it affected the trade around Europe, limiting the transportation of goods. As a response to the plague that took place
The plague was similar to diseases today because it was not curable similar to Aids. Aids started to spread Africa when the people ate chimpanzee just like how the people in England would eat infected food. The bubonic plague was important to the English culture because this disease affected many people in England. In England the people
During Shakespeare 's time, people 's lives were often short. As many as one-half of the children born never lived beyond fifteen years and, thus, never reached adulthood. Also, the average lifespan of an adult was only thirty years. There was no such thing as medicine/antibiotics in shakespeare’s time so this is why not many people lived past their 30’s.
Daniel Defoe 's A Journal of a Plague Year is not simply a narrative about the etymology and effects of the Great Plague of 1665, rather, this narrative is concerned with how the plague relates to and affects humanity and our greater understanding of the world. This concern ultimately reflects the growing ideas of the Enlightenment in the 18th century. To Daniel Gordon, it is only within the Enlightenment 's modern city that the plague can become a "disaster of the highest magnitude," because it "symbolize[s] the other side of the coin of rationality” (70). The "uncontrollable force" of the plague creates an innate juxtaposition to human progress, specifically how we deal with that uncontrollable force (Gordon 70). Therefore, in setting humans against an unstoppable threat, Defoe is aiming to observe and record reactions in order to understand the nature of humans.
Although these records were beneficial somewhat to researches, it can also be unreliable since Church figures of this time were believers that God brought the plague upon them and it is possible that it only provides one side to the cause and not was actually being looked for. It is also very limited in that the cause of the death isn’t recorded and can’t be separated from those who died of natural causes before the plague. Another problem with only using bishops’ and priests as evidence is that they are not an accurate representation of the entire population which included both male and female. One Historian argued that “priests were on average better fed, better housed and better educated” than most of the people other than those of higher
A man by the name of Albert Camus gave the problem of evil literary expression in his 20th century novel “The Plague”. The novel is about the bubonic plague and how it destroys a town by the name of Oran. This town and all its citizens are trapped within its borders forced to either suffer from the sickness themselves or to watch their loved once suffer and die with nothing they can do to help it. The story has many religious aspects to it because during that time period religion played a major role is almost everyone’s lives. Part of the book in the reading talks about how the priest of the town says that the plague is God’s judgement for the townspeople’s sins, it isn’t until the priest himself is left praying for the lift a child who with
The Fifth Horseman The four horsemen: Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death are the harbingers of the apocalypse, serving chaos and destruction on all of humanity. The Bible forgot to mention the Fifth Horseman: Kyle, whom the other four can’t seem to ditch. Death was the oldest. He was mankind 's oldest enemy.
French literature of the 1940s was driven by the pessimistic philosophical school of thought, absurdism. Albert Camus’ writings represent a branch of absurdism, existentialism, which questions the inherent meaning of life. In novels such as The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus explores existential tenets, including the immediate pleasures of the physical world versus greater spiritual meaning and what is one’s purpose during one’s life experience. In The Plague, Camus traces the societal reactions to death and disease and the immediate reactions of isolation. In this novel Camus, as a staunch absurdist, uses a contagion as a vehicle to rebuke the two most powerful constructs of belief: the religious and scientific answer to our inevitable
Main characters August "Auggie" Pullman: The main character. His face is deformed due to "mandibulofacial dysostosis" or "Treacher-Collins syndrome", along with other facial malformations. He faces many difficulties when he enrolls in his first year of middle school after being home schooled for many years. In the end, he is able to make new friends and accept himself for who he is. Olivia "Via" Pullman: August's older sister.
The Plague by Albert Camus has many themes including exile and imprisonment. Let’s define exile first and see how it relates to the text. The word exile means the state of being barred and expelled from one’s native country, typically for political or punitive reasons (dictionary.com). The expert that I choose to work on is on page 100 and it is the turning point in the novel where the people of Oran start to feel exiled and imprisoned. The excerpt states that the outbreak of the plague currently exiles and imprisons the town of Oran, and its close gates recommended by government officials leave many people separated from their love ones and also leave a sense of imprisonment within the town itself.
Albert Camus’s novel The Plague is set in Oran, a French port on the Algerian coast in the 1940s. His novel can be seen as an allegory about French resistance to the Nazi’s during World War 2. Camus uses the setting and the weather to depict and convey to the reader that human suffering can stem not only from pestilence but also from other humans. The plague itself can be seen as a metaphor to illustrate a calamity that tests the mettle of humans and their endurance, solidarity, compassion and will.
