== Historie ==
Oprindelig blev betegnelsen moralsk panik anvendt i prædikener i 1830 i en noget anden betydning end den senere anvendt i denne artikel.<ref> [https://books.google.dk/books?id=THQoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false "Dr. Cox on regeneration".]. ''Millennial Harbinger''. '''1''': 546-550. 1830.</ref><ref>Hodge, Charles (1830). "Review: Regeneration and the manner of its occurrence". ''The Biblical Repertory and Theological Review''. '''2''': 250-297. </ref> Først i 1831 tilnærmede man sig den betydning der anvendes i dag.<ref>''The Journal of Health Conducted by an Association of Physicians'' (1831) s. 180: "Magendie, a French physician of note on his visit to Sunderland, where the [[Kolera|Cholera]] was by the last accounts still raging, praises the English government for not surrounding the town with a cordon of troops, which as "a physical preventive would have been ineffectual and would have produced a moral panic far more fatal than the disease now is."</ref>
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