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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... in three waves and few areas escaped its malignant effect. The first wave in March and April 1918 spread rapidly to war-ravaged Europe and then on to Asia and North Africa, before reaching Australia by July . The mortality rate was fairly.
... areas of South America , is that mortality rates from flu among aboriginal peoples were very high , sweeping through Inuit communities in northern Canada and Alaska , and other Native American groups with disastrous results ...
... areas more significant factors were the close links between famine , epidemic malaria , inflation and the lack of public health provision.24 It is , however , 25 impossible to distinguish between deaths attributable to flu, and.
... areas of the world whose academies effectively defined what then constituted ' scientific history ' ; and second , that , as the Spanish flu amounted to an enormous rout in the war against disease for the medical profession , it was not ...
... areas with graphic detail, while the analysis of Inuit deaths in the Canadian sub- Arctic by Anne Herring and Lisa Sattenspiel, both anthropologists, fruitfully adds that discipline's insights concerning social organisation and ecology ...
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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 | |
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COMPILED BY JÜRGEN MÜLLER | |
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