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NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS Fan Ka-wai, Yu Xinzhong, Cheung Hok-ming, and Lau Sze-nga* STUDIES ON MING-DYNASTY INFECTIOUS DISEASES The role of infectious disease in human history cannot be overestimated. In an age of pharmaceutical empires built by the jet-fast spread of disease, the outbreak of SARS in spring 2003 affected the entire world, though center stage was certainly Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. For months, the phrase "infectious disease" was as ubiquitous as gauze face masks, a linguistic contagion that affected every news broadcast and front page. Caught in the net this subject cast over twenty-first-century East Asian culture were such topics as the human soul, the meaning of life, the mystery of death, the role of religion at such moments, and so on. Since the outbreak of SARS, more and more scholars and lay persons have been drawn to the history of infectious disease. The author's own inves tigation has shown that more than six books on the subject were published in Mainland China during June and July 2003 alone. These works, some of which were written for a popular audience, drew lessons from the history of * This paper is fully supported by a grant from
Ming Qing Yanjiu – Brill
Published: Jan 30, 2005
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