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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... chief of the Division of Molecular Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC, USA. He is the author of many articles in the field of pathology. Wilfried Witte, MA (Technical University, Berlin), works as a ...
... chief claim to significance.42 Not until the appearance of the second big influenza pandemic of the twentieth century, the Asian flu of 1957, was the 1918'19 pandemic to be perceived in another light, as a topic for historical ...
... chiefs in colonial Tanzania to cope with flu-induced famines was permanently inscribed into British colonial policy there by uncomprehending administrators in the 1920s. This is truly an example of discerning a far-reaching consequence ...
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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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