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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... pattern still remains something of a mystery. The cause may have been genetic or physiological. Another reason may ... patterns of mortality varied from one.
New Perspectives David Killingray, Howard Phillips. from the virus, although patterns of mortality varied from one place to another around the world. Certainly the poor were rendered more vulnerable due to low levels of nutrition and ...
... patterns, its effects on daily life, the medical and public health response it elicited and its economic impact — in ten Western hemisphere cities, in a bid to 'pull together some of the pieces of what is known about the pandemic and ...
... patterns in these mortality figures for example by age , gender , place of residence and occupation — has as a consequence allowed better - defined questions to be posed about the pandemic's distinctive impact . In turn , such questions ...
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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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