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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... anything for influenza ' : doctors , nurses and the power of gender during the influenza pandemic in the United States NANCY K. BRISTOW PART III Official responses to the pandemic 5 Japan and New Zealand in the 1918 influenza pandemic.
... doctors together in one spot to shine a searchlight on the largest outbreak of infectious disease that the world has ever known. But even so, it has to be appreciated that 95 per cent of the world survived, including my own father. But ...
... doctors at the time . They had no chance to try out different remedies or to learn anything about the disease before it was over . It has posed great problems to historians ever since . — Such a condensed event does not allow for ...
... doctors' surgeries and clinics were weighed down with patients. Probably the best advice for sufferers, if it could be followed, was the use of aspirin to lower the body temperature, bed rest and effective nursing care. The vast ...
... saw other marketing possibilities in the story of the 1918-19 pandemic . In 1968 it commissioned a Dutch journalist , A.C. de Gooijer , to write a popular account of the pandemic , to be distributed to doctors in Holland exactly.
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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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