Cholera Epidemics in Valencia in the 19th Century

• Rafael Roca ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat de València

     Universitat de València

     Valencia, España

     
• Localización: Handbook of research on historical pandemic analysis and the social implications of COVID-19 / coord. por Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Vicent Martines Peres, 2022, ISBN 978-1-79987-987-9, págs. 215-224
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The world crisis created by COVID-19 invites us to find some precedents to it by examining past periods and situations in which our society has suffered similar circumstances. In this regard, one of the periods that show more similarities from a social and sanitary perspective is the Valencia of the 19th century, where between 1834 and 1890 there were a total of nine cholera epidemics that resulted in dozens of deaths and determined the future development of one of the main regions of the old Crown of Aragon. The author analyzes the social and cultural impact of cholera in Valencia during the 19th century and especially in the intellectual and literary world.