The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: New PerspectivesDavid Killingray, Howard Phillips Routledge, 2 sept. 2003 - 380 pagini The 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. |
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... of all causes , 1917-18 12.1 Uncorrected death rates from flu per 1,000 population ( 1911 ) in Paris , according to age and sex , 30 June 1918-26 April 1919 Contributors Nancy K. Bristow, BA (Colorado College), MA, PhD (Berkeley,
... Paris. He has taught demography in Paris universities and at Harvard. His work has focused on various health issues in Tropical Africa and in the world. He is the author of numerous articles on mortality studies, causes of death ...
... Paris. With Lion Murard he wrote L'Hygiène dans la République: La Santé publique en France ou Vutopie contrariée, 1870– 1918 (Paris, 1996) and with liana Löwy edited a special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and ...
... Paris, which went on to work closely with the League of Nations' International Health Organisation, to monitor outbreaks of influenza. However, it was not until 1947 that a more effective international influenza centre was created in ...
... Paris, London, Berlin 1914– 1919 (1997). Few comprehensive national histories of the influenza pandemic exist yet. Where they have been attempted, such studies — twelve would be a generous estimate of their number 60 — owe more to the ...
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German medicine and | |
doctors nurses and the power | |
perspectives on official responses and crisis management | |
influenza in Britain in 191819 | |
Spanish flu in the Canadian subarctic | |
Spanish influenza seen from Spain | |
the Great War and the 1918 Spanish influenza | |
Longterm effects of the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic on | |
memory and the 1918 influenza epidemic | |
epidemiologic | |
Notes | |
the Bombay experience | |
a preliminary probe | |
a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 | |
Bibliography | |
COMPILED BY JÜRGEN MÜLLER | |
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