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Vorwegnahme und Ernstfall: Emotionale Regime in den Jahren der zweiten Cholerapandemie am Beispiel Kärntens

    Christian Promitzer

VIRUS Band 22, pp. 067-088, 2023/12/28

Schwerpunkt: Epidemie und Emotion

doi: 10.1553/virus22s067

doi: 10.1553/virus22s067


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doi:10.1553/virus22



doi:10.1553/virus22s067



doi:10.1553/virus22s067

Abstract

Contrary to other Austrian regions, the province of Carinthia was spared from cholera in the year of 1831; however, the epidemic would cost the lives of several hundred local inhabitants in 1836. The paper concentrates on the predominant emotions of the population and the emotional regimes deployed by the regional and local authorities who wanted to ensure optimal sanitary conditions and deter possible unruliness among the population. Between 1831 and 1836 the preventive policies against the pandemic changed from addressing cholera as a contagious disease towards its treatment as a miasmatic one. Instead of quarantines, cordons, and concomitant terrifying images of barren landscapes as of 1831, now dietetics, a healthy lifestyle, and a sound balance of emotions formed the focus of prevention, which in turn signified the – at the time not undisputed – access point for hygienic reform among the rural population, which is otherwise known by the term “medicalization”.

Keywords: Cholera, Carinthia, Vormärz, emotions, fear, charity