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Socio-Cultural Responses within India during Times of Pandemic Disease

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Air date:	Thursday, October 27, 2022, 2:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 143 (65 Live, 78 On-demand)
Category:	History
Runtime:	01:08:51
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Description:	Focusing on the history of India, Dr. Mathew will explore the complex and underappreciated ways in which Indian folk-beliefs, myth, superstition, related stories (witnessed and fictional) and local traditions, have combined to inform the experience of epidemic and pandemic disease, including in the main, but not limited to, cholera, plague, influenza and COVID-19. Drawing on collections of the NLM and other institutions, he will investigate how these complex belief systems intersect with different kinds of information about these diseases, revealing how every new outbreak is accompanied with information that did not exist during the previous outbreak, indeed how histories of these events have been documented and remembered from generation to generation.

NLM Title:	Socio-cultural responses within India during times of pandemic disease / John Mathew.
Author:	Mathew, John. National Library of Medicine (U.S.),
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Abstract:	(CIT): Focusing on the history of India, Dr. Mathew will explore the complex and underappreciated ways in which Indian folk-beliefs, myth, superstition, related stories (witnessed and fictional) and local traditions, have combined to inform the experience of epidemic and pandemic disease, including in the main, but not limited to, cholera, plague, influenza and COVID-19. Drawing on collections of the NLM and other institutions, he will investigate how these complex belief systems intersect with different kinds of information about these diseases, revealing how every new outbreak is accompanied with information that did not exist during the previous outbreak, indeed how histories of these events have been documented and remembered from generation to generation.
Subjects:	Cultural Characteristics--history History, Modern 1601- India Medicine, Traditional--history Pandemics--history Religion and Medicine Sociological Factors
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast

NLM Classification:	WA 11 JI4
NLM ID:	9918573278306676
CIT Live ID:	44467
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44467

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