Dimitra Kondylatou, David Bergé (eds.), Public Health Crisis: Confined in the Aegean Archipelago Writing Richard Porter

Richard Porter

Elizabeth Huber

the artist chooses from his collection of masks

Edgar Walthert

Dimitra Kondylatou, David Bergé (eds.), Public Health Crisis: Confined in the Aegean Archipelago Writing Richard PorterEpidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land, other species, and each other. This book presents fragments of disease management in the Mediterranean from the 15th century onwards and in the Aegean Archipelago in the last two centuries. From religious to medical approaches to the Bubonic Plague, through the creation of lazarettos, to the famine in occupied Syros, to ghost ships