A constant reader of military literature I can really say that it is a must! That’s why I undertook to read the entire book (a breezy 240 pages) this summer, and I’m glad I did. It makes one wonder whether the doctors went to Vietnam to have sex or to treat people.

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. With a thousand or more people dying a day, “dead-carts” are dispatched to round up the dead and dump them into a huge pit. The story follows... To see what your friends thought of this book, The one star is for the first 20 or so pages of this book. As now, people tried to avoid going out of their homes as much as possible, and if they did go out they tried to keep a distance from others and to avoid touching anything. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. They should have remained in their country instead of going out and then writing a book about how vietnamese women are sexually attractive and active.

As the lucky people who collect the bodies sicken and die themselves, new people have to be found all the time to fill the job. anyway, the way the book goes is very very hooking. And it is also a timely reminder that, far from a novel and unpredictable event, the current crisis is one of many plagues that we have weathered in our time on this perilous globe. There he talked about his recruitment process into the army to serve as a doctor.

)One more commonality is that the virus outlasted people’s patience and prudence. Refresh and try again.

Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. There he talked about his recruitment process into the army to serve as a doctor. you cannot talk of Nam without watching PLATOON and you cannot say you read about NAM war without Parrish's journal of a Plague Year :). A constant reader of military literature I can really say that it is a must! it is like man how the US did not censor it?! Start by marking “Journal Of A Plague Year: 12, 20 & 5” as Want to Read: Error rating book.

(It sounds even worse than a job as a technical writer for a restaurant chain.). He is the author of Autopsy of War: A Personal History and, Bryan Washington on Father Figures and Other Complicated Relationships.

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There are no discussion topics on this book yet. It’s mostly the poor people who have to stay behind, so they are the principal victims. Overview. Daniel Defoe wrote this account when the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction were looser. And the economic consequences were dreadful—shutting up business, leaving thousands unemployed, and halting commerce. When one delves deeper, one meets with the constant and repeated sexual proclivities of those serving in the group. The training and the preparations were okay. The first time I read Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year was in 2002, two years before the SARS outbreak. Never made publick before Infection with the bacillus causes swollen lymph nodes—in the groin, armpits, and neck—called buboes, and it was believed that the swellings had to be punctured and drained. Today my book beginning is from A Journal of the Plague Year: being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665 by Daniel Defoe, one … Why? He is spared the infection but witnesses firsthand the horrors of the epidemic and lives to tell about them. the Mass amount of information published that time well comparing it to a reader in 2018!

English author Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was a literary late bloomer. Houses of the sick are ransacked by thieves.

There was also state-mandated quarantining, as any house with an infection got “shut up”—meaning the inhabitants could not leave.Ironically, though these measures would have been wise had the disease been viral, they made little sense for a disease communicated by rat fleas.

Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. English author Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was a literary late bloomer. As with any human tragedy, there are stories of heroism and sacrifice along with the stories of opportunism and charlatanism.

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On the other hand, caring people risk their own lives to stay behind and care for the sick in the “pest houses.” Charities are set up that provide food and necessities to the poor to see them through the epidemic.

People can have the plague and not even know it, so are spreading it to everybody they come into contact with.

Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of. Quack doctors prey on the poor and uneducated, selling them fake “medicines” that are supposed to be a surefire remedy against the plague.

Once you get used to the old style of sentence structure, it’s a fascinating reading experience. I mean the day to day and minute by minute description of the events and how the john was fighting the casualities and the emotions invested there. Not much has changed, after all.So while not exactly pleasant to read, A Journal of the Plague Year is at least humbling for the contemporary reader, as it reminds us that perhaps we have not come so far as we thought. A Journal of the Plague Year is fiction but is told in first person, as if the narrator is there at the time of the epidemic. So many people are dying during the height of the epidemic that the niceties of burying the dead in coffins are dispensed with.

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In 1665, nobody seemed to know for sure. Is it airborne or does it come about only through contact with an infected person? ( Log Out /  It was published in 1722, more than 50 years after the events it describes. There he talked about his recruitment process into the army to serve as a doctor. The only requirement for the pits is that the dead be buried at least six feet deep. Even so, there are so many memorable details and stories in this book that it is worth the time one spends with it.The Great Plague carried off one fourth of London’s population—about 100,000 souls—and it was not even the worst outbreak of plague in the city. A Journal of the Plague Year ~ A Capsule Book Review by Allen Kopp. He is a distinguished professor emeritus of dermatology at Harvard Medical School and has served as chief of the department of dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital. ( Log Out /  The original wave of the Black Death, in the middle ages, was undoubtedly worse. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel DefoeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars. When one delves deeper, one meets with the constant and repeated sexual proclivities of those serving in the group. I mean the day to day and minute by minute description of the events and how the john was fighting the casualities and the emotions invested there. Daniel Defoe wrote this account when the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction were looser.

My pandemic reading continues with this classic work about one of the worst diseases in European history: bubonic plague.

What is more, Defoe’s narrator is not the most orderly of writers, and frequently repeats himself or gets sidetracked. We also see the ways that disease affects the rich and the poor differently: the rich could afford to flee the city, while the poor faced disease and starvation.

It makes one wonder whether the doctors went to Vietnam to have sex or to treat people.

The citizens anxiously read the statistics in the newspaper, to see if the numbers are trending upwards or downwards. ( Log Out /  And when you consider that the Great Fire of London was quick on the plague’s heels, you come to the conclusion that this was not the best time to be a Londoner.What is most striking about reading this book now is how familiar it is. Change ). Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.

He freely mixes invention, hearsay, anecdote, and real statistics, in pursuit of a gripping yarn. The coronavirus is no bubonic plague, but it seems our reactions to disease have not come a long way.

Written by a CITIZEN who continued all the while in London. Defoe himself was only a young boy when the Great Plague struck London, in 1664-6; but he writes the story in the person of a well-to-do, curious, if somewhat unimaginative burgher, with the initials “H.F.” The result is one of literature’s most enduring portraits of a city besieged by disease.Though this account purports to be a “journal,” it is not written as a series of dated entries, but as one long scrawl.

Welcome back. The novel is written in the first-person and chronicles the spread of the bubonic plague in London in 1665. ( Log Out /  A Journal of the Plague Year was first published in 1722 and is an account of the London plague epidemic in 1665, when Defoe was only five years old. Medical science was entirely useless against the disease. This book is amazing, really i was so sad to finish it. Defoe’s little-known 1722 pseudo-history holds startling parallels with our own plague year of COVID-19.

Why? ]View all my reviews. He is a distinguished professor emeritus of dermatology at Harvard Medical School and has served as chief of the department of dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospit, John A. Parrish, MD, is the cofounder and CEO of the Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) and the former director of the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program. The one star is for the first 20 or so pages of this book. Defoe supposedly drew on the journals of his uncle, one Henry Foe, in writing the novel. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe being Observations or Memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. One man's diary of a year in Vietnam during the Vietnam war,serving as a doctor, and very thought provoking.

Unscrupulous “nurses” murder the sick people they have been hired to care for. The training and the preparations were okay. The first thing to say about A Journal of the Plague Year is that it is not, strictly speaking, a first-hand record.

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There are, of course, the scenes of desolation: empty streets and mass graves. This likely did more harm than good, and in practice the plague doctors’ only useful purpose was to keep records of the dead.Quite interesting to observe were the antique forms of social distancing (a term that of course did not exist) that the Londoners practiced.

Jun 30, 2017 Paul Gaya Ochieng Simeon Juma rated it did not like it. The training and the preparations were okay. There isn’t much plot or story to A Journal of the Plague Year, but that doesn’t mean it’s dull reading.

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