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Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman  
March 2021

Pandemic Aftermath (2)

Publication Date : March 26, 2021
Related Categories: ecology, Epidemics, Ethics, History, Medical Systems, Modernization, Op Ed, Science, Women, work
Publications: Register Pajaronian
A cataclysmic pandemic does not end with everything going back to the world as it was. The Bubonic Plague in Europe led to changes in religion (distrust in Catholicism opening protesting sects, Protestantism); changes in work, serfdom giving way to free labor; urbanization and the rise of a middle class challenged monarchy; and older superstitions giving way to the birth of modern science.

Successive epidemics compelled crowded cities to clean up. Scientific improvements permitted more...

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