Has disease always been politicized or has this been a recent occurrence (last 100 years or so?)
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I want to say yes. I'm trying to remember Thucycdides' description of the plague in Athens — the civil chaos coming from it.
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All I remember is he called it "miasma" but nothing else.
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I just looked at the passage, and he describes chaos from people losing hope & acting for whatever immediate pleasure they could get before they die, and also a strengthening of the anti-Pericles, anti-war faction — but it's hard to call it "politicization" in a modern sense.
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