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Chapter 16 - Great Emergencies

How Does the Trajectory Change after Great Emergencies?

from Section 3 - Bending the Arc

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2023

Mark P. Khurana
Mark P. Khurana
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University of Copenhagen
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While great emergencies are fortunately rare and certainly devastating, the upside is that they are often accelerators of progress. Wars, pandemics, and emergencies have been catalysts for medical innovation out of necessity - a desperate attempt to compensate for the circumstances. They bend the trajectory of discovery in new directions and increase the rate at which certain medical discoveries are made. Chapter 16 is thus about how wars, outbreaks, and other emergencies influence the rate and direction of medical progress. It explores how both World Wars, the pandemic of 1918, and COVID-19 have altered the trajectory of discovery.

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1918 pandemicCOVID-19world warblood transfusionpenicillinantibiotics
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The Trajectory of Discovery
What Determines the Rate and Direction of Medical Progress?
 , pp. 88 - 95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Great Emergencies
  • Mark P. Khurana, University of Copenhagen
  • Book: The Trajectory of Discovery
  • Online publication: 06 April 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009354424.017
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  • Mark P. Khurana, University of Copenhagen
  • Book: The Trajectory of Discovery
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009354424.017
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  • Great Emergencies
  • Mark P. Khurana, University of Copenhagen
  • Book: The Trajectory of Discovery
  • Online publication: 06 April 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009354424.017
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