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 fact that the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, although well recalled in collective memories, is less well recorded by historians in no way reduces the historical significance of the disease and its impact.
The fact that the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, although well recalled in collective memories, is less well recorded by historians in no way reduces the historical significance of the disease and its impact.
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Individual medical diagnoses varied and in all probability many deaths from influenza were either not reported or recorded as due to other causes. In central and eastern Europe many people were weakened by the long effects of the war ...
Individual medical diagnoses varied and in all probability many deaths from influenza were either not reported or recorded as due to other causes. In central and eastern Europe many people were weakened by the long effects of the war ...
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What is well recorded for North America, and a few areas of South America, is that mortality rates from flu among aboriginal peoples were very high, sweeping through Inuit communities in northern Canada and Alaska, and other Native ...
What is well recorded for North America, and a few areas of South America, is that mortality rates from flu among aboriginal peoples were very high, sweeping through Inuit communities in northern Canada and Alaska, and other Native ...
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A surprising feature of the 1918–19 pandemic, compared to all other recorded influenza pandemics, was the high incidence of death universally among those aged between 20–40 years, particularly men, the very group that might be thought ...
A surprising feature of the 1918–19 pandemic, compared to all other recorded influenza pandemics, was the high incidence of death universally among those aged between 20–40 years, particularly men, the very group that might be thought ...
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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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