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How Does the Trajectory Change after Great Emergencies?
from Section 3 - Bending the Arc
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2023
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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