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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... professional historians have been extremely sceptical about the importance of epidemics in history . Overlooking cataclysmic natural disasters , they have focused , rather , on political , economic and intellectual processes to explain ...
... profession , which had made great strides in epidemiological knowledge and surgery over the previous two decades , found itself unprepared and ill - equipped to deal with the disease and had no effective way of combating or curing it ...
... professional historians of the day about the pandemic , in striking contrast to their readiness to tackle as a historical topic , its contemporary , the First World War . Although they had lived through both , it was almost as if they ...
... profession , it was not a subject to hold much appeal for the triumphalist brand of medical history then in vogue , thanks to medicine's stream of successes since Pasteur . Where , for instance , would it find a place in the upbeat ...
... eminently readable. His combination of medical, political, and social history is an effective one and should appeal both to professional historians and to general readers ' concluded The American Historical Review's reviewer enthu -
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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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