Paper title:
 "The Unexpected Stop." Experience of Isolation in Quarantines, 1700s – 1900s
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4316/CC.2025.02.12
Published in:
Issue 2 (Vol. 31) / 2025
Publishing date:
2025-12-31
Pages:
575 - 580
Author(s):
Harieta Mareci Sabol
Abstract:
 The mechanisms of anxiety, protection, and surveillance have a long and complex history. They are also evident in the functioning of quarantine, an instrument that has proven capable of shaping both human behaviour and political attitudes towards trade, culture, and medicine. Considered necessary by some but feared and misunderstood by others, quarantine materialises the paradoxical temporality of waiting: waiting for isolation, for signs of illness, for news from beyond the walls, and, inally, for the affairs of liberation. Chosen with inspiration and meticulousness, the fragments drawn from diaries, correspondence, and memoirs imbue quarantine with characteristics that can contribute to its understanding from a human perspective, placing it within the universes of intellectual history, the history of medicine, and the history of travel.

Keywords:
 Quarantine, health, memory, confession, experience, diary.




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