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An epidemic is an empirical phenomenon, confirmed from the medical point of view and subject to historical description and biopolitical interpretation. By contrast, plague, according to its anthropological definition, constitutes a part of a mythological landscape\u2014a permanent element defining the crisis, the transitional moment, the end of the old world and the beginning of a new one. This talk covers the two biggest epidemics of infectious diseases, typhus and influenza, plaguing Poland\u2019s population of that time and places them in a broader context of sanitary and social conditions in the early Second Polish Republic.<\/p>\n

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