The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: New PerspectivesThe Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with its ravages. It left millions orphaned and medical science desperate to find its cause. Despite the magnitude of its impact, few scholarly attempts have been made to examine this calamity in its many-sided complexity. On a global, multidisciplinary scale, the book seeks to apply the insights of a wide range of social and medical sciences to an investigation of the pandemic. Topics covered include the historiography of the pandemic, its virology, the enormous demographic impact, the medical and governmental responses it elicited, and its long-term effects, particularly the recent attempts to identify the precise causative virus from specimens taken from flu victims in 1918, or victims buried in the Arctic permafrost at that time. |
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Howard Phillips, South African by birth, studied at the University of Cape Town and London University before joining the staff of the History Department at UCT in 1974. Since completing his doctoral thesis on the impact of the Spanish ...
Howard Phillips, South African by birth, studied at the University of Cape Town and London University before joining the staff of the History Department at UCT in 1974. Since completing his doctoral thesis on the impact of the Spanish ...
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In 1972 he joined Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he is now Professor of Modern History. He has written books and many articles on aspects of African, Imperial, Caribbean and English local history, and has just completed ...
In 1972 he joined Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he is now Professor of Modern History. He has written books and many articles on aspects of African, Imperial, Caribbean and English local history, and has just completed ...
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Andrew Noymer, BA (Harvard), MA (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London), is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. His interests in demography include historical demography ...
Andrew Noymer, BA (Harvard), MA (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London), is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. His interests in demography include historical demography ...
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However, it was not until 1947 that a more effective international influenza centre was created in London with nearly 100 bases around the world. Various methods were used in the industrial states to try and prevent the further spread ...
However, it was not until 1947 that a more effective international influenza centre was created in London with nearly 100 bases around the world. Various methods were used in the industrial states to try and prevent the further spread ...
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Comparative inquiries into the Spanish influenza will have to go a long way to match the insights of Winter and Robert's Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914–1919 (1997). Few comprehensive national histories of the ...
Comparative inquiries into the Spanish influenza will have to go a long way to match the insights of Winter and Robert's Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914–1919 (1997). Few comprehensive national histories of the ...
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Genetic characterisation of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus | |
German medicine and | |
doctors nurses and the power | |
the Bombay experience | |
a preliminary probe | |
Spanish flu in the Canadian subarctic | |
Spanish influenza seen from Spain | |
the Great War and the 1918 Spanish influenza | |
Longterm effects of the 1918 Spanishinfluenza epidemic on | |
memory and the 1918 influenza epidemic | |
epidemiologic | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 | |
influenza in Britain in 191819 | |
COMPILED BY JÜRGEN MÜLLER | |
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| Titlu | The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: New Perspectives Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine |
| Editori | David Killingray, Howard Phillips |
| Editor | Routledge, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1134566409, 9781134566402 |
| Lungime | 384 pagini |
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