Healing and Healers

Munkhoff, Richelle

doi:10.1017/9781316137062.099

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“…During the bubonic plague in London (1665-66), many physicians, who were exclusively male at the time, did not risk examining contagious corpses and fled the diseaseridden city, which left the essential job of searching for the dead to women under economic duress. 21 In some cases, authorities took even less desirable steps, forcing some groups to undertake critical tasks that were extremely dangerous during plague outbreaks. City health officials in Marseille at the beginning of the eighteenth century, for example, purchased slaves from a quarantined ship to cart and bury corpses.…”

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Who are the key workers?

Berg,

Duman

2023

World Employ Soc Outlook

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During the COVID‐19 pandemic, key workers left the safety of their homes to produce, distribute and sell food, clean to minimize the spread of the pandemic, ensure public safety, transport essential goods and workers to their jobs, and care for and heal the sick. The pandemic made evident the extent to which societies need key workers – in both good times and bad – but also how undervalued most key jobs are, raising concerns about the sustainability of these essential activities. This chapters introduces the concept of key workers and provides basic demographic information on their composition.

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Section: The Concept Of Key or Essential Work Over Timementioning

confidence: 99%