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VIRUS
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Die Zeitschrift "Virus - Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin" ist das Publikationsorgan des Vereins für Sozialgeschichte der Medizin und erscheint einmal jährlich.
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BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT, WIEN (IBAN AT04 1100 0006 2280 0100, BIC BKAUATWW), DEUTSCHE BANK MÜNCHEN (IBAN DE16 7007 0024 0238 8270 00, BIC DEUTDEDBMUC)
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VIRUS Band 22, pp. 067-088, 2023/12/28
Schwerpunkt: Epidemie und Emotion
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