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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... noted a causal relationship. Around 5 million people died of EL during the 1920s, so we may have to revise the total mortality even further upwards should this link be proven by genetic analysis to the influenza pandemic of 1918. More ...
... noted , ' [ P ] ractically speaking , the only relevant point of view for microbial issues is global , since bacteria , parasites , and viruses exploit appropriate ecospheres wherever they find them , regardless of national boundaries ...
... noted, were 'gigantic but urgent' to unravel 'in the face of the almost certain recurrence some day of another world- wide pandemic'. 41 In such accounts history was treated as a utilitarian object for quite specific epidemiological ...
... noted the immediate responses it evoked. Crosby 'deserves plaudits for his provocative speculations and for his lively style which makes his solid scholarship eminently readable. His combination of medical, political, and social history ...
... noted earlier, have hardly been explored in any depth hitherto. To what extent did civilians in belligerent countries suffer greater mortality than soldiers in the pandemic because medical and nursing resources were directed towards 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 | |
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the Bombay experience | |
a preliminary probe | |
a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 | |
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