Open AccessCOVID-19 AND THE GREAT PANDEMICS OF HUMANITY: a historical and sociological view
Author(s) -
Natália de Lima Gasque,
Fábio Andrade Dias,
Francielli Gonçalves Rodrigues,
Maria Vitória Nogueira Marvulli,
Nélson Russo de Moraes
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista observatório
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2447-4266
DOI - 10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2020v6n3a17en
Subject(s) - humanity , pandemic , politics , sociology , historiography , covid-19 , environmental ethics , public health , social science , political science , law , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , philosophy , nursing , disease , pathology
Sociology as an area of knowledge that studies human social relations has been used as a safe way to understand the phenomena that involve human beings in their sociability. Accordingly, this article presents a literature and documentary review, within a socio-historical perspective, about the main pandemics that have plagued humanity in order to discuss the covid-19 pandemic. For this objective to be achieved, a bibliographic and documentary review was carried out based on a qualitative historiographical approach. The review generated a historically organized discussion of the main pandemics that occurred to humanity, which led to the understand of a convergence between the fields of public health, public policies as well as the need to create structures to prevent and fight pandemics. It is concluded that the pandemic cycles faced by humanity interfere strongly in several social issues, slowing down the rhythm of people’s lives, generating structural and political changes in the health and economic systems.