Cholera, Quarantines and Social Modernisation at the Danube Border of the Ottoman Empire

The Romanian Experience between 1830 and 1859

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ID12209552
AuthorsLidia Trăușan-Matu (0000-0001-8111-9975, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, corresponding author), Octavian Buda (0000-0002-1455-8246, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy)
Year2022
Volume36
Issue1
Pages24-41
Publication date2022-12-14
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial History of Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-631X • E-ISSN: 1477-4666
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/shm/hkac064
OpenAlexW4311441446
LanguageEN
Citations received2

This study focuses on the history of the quarantine system established at the naval border of the Romanian Principalities (Wallachia and Moldavia) between 1830 and 1859. We survey both the state’s ability to organise defences against contagious diseases and the society’s reaction to strict quarantine rules. In the end, we show that the Danube quarantine was not only a means of combating contagious diseases but also an instrument of pressure, surveillance and state regulation. To reconstruct an image of that period, we used information from five categories of sources: archive documents, health legislation, the press of the time, memoirs and diplomatic reports. By bringing the Romanian quarantine experience to the foreground, this study broadens both the perspective on quarantines and modernisation in the Romanian Principalities and also the knowledge regarding the free movement, politics and economy at the Danube border of the Ottoman Empire

Empire · Legislation · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Quarantine · Romanian · State (computer science · History of Science and Medicine · Medicine · Ottoman and Turkish Studies · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · History · Law

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