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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The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918–19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives around the globe in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with ...
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918–19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives around the globe in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with ...
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First, 1918 saw a wave of infection and respiratory death which no one on the planet would want to live through again, and second, as virologists, we do expect another influenza pandemic to visit and, in our most pessimistic moments ...
First, 1918 saw a wave of infection and respiratory death which no one on the planet would want to live through again, and second, as virologists, we do expect another influenza pandemic to visit and, in our most pessimistic moments ...
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It seems likely, indeed, that such a process of recall will be one way in which the pandemic figures in future histories, as a shaping episode in the lives of forgotten people, sometimes ending them and sometimes beginning them anew.
It seems likely, indeed, that such a process of recall will be one way in which the pandemic figures in future histories, as a shaping episode in the lives of forgotten people, sometimes ending them and sometimes beginning them anew.
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For the millions of people who had lost loved ones, Crosby argued, it was clearly a (if not 'the') watershed event in their lives. Though this argument became explicit only in his final chapter, his prior synthesis raised historical ...
For the millions of people who had lost loved ones, Crosby argued, it was clearly a (if not 'the') watershed event in their lives. Though this argument became explicit only in his final chapter, his prior synthesis raised historical ...
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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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