THE LEGACY OF PANDEMICS THROUGHOUT HISTORY

Abstract

In his main work, Charles Darwin (1809-1882) proposed the "Theory of Evolution", stating that evolution occurred thanks to the mechanism known as natural selection, where living beings at all times would be looking for survival in the environment, and the environment would be responsible for selecting the one most able to survive in it, including pandemics in the context of the "environment", as a mechanism that selects the strongest individuals in the immunological context, and defines their survival or death by the occurrence of the disease's action in the organism. In accordance with Darwin's theory, it is understood that all evolution has consequences for human beings, a pragmatic and questioning phrase, but with a constructive meaning in man's evolutionary history.In definition, disease is a biological alteration of an individual's health state manifested by a set of perceptible symptoms or not, illness, evil, disease, a set that encompasses the great pandemics over the centuries. Emphasizing that the health-disease process, which is so studied and researched, causes questions in current and past society, deliberating the need to understand the questions that the theme that correlates the "LEGACY OF PANDEMICS ALONG HISTORY", is fully reflected in the pandemics of the present times, as an example the pandemic currently installed of the new coronavirus (COVID-19).The main objective of this monograph is defined as the historical characterization of global pandemics, their problems, occurrences, consequences, and general deliberations for the contextual understanding that the theme is inserted.