The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: New Perspectives

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David Killingray, Howard Phillips
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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.
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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In recent decades, all of these, along with numerous more local epidemics, have attracted the attention of historians, and our understanding of them — and of epidemics in general — has increased many times over as a result.3 Not ...
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The outbreak in England in the 1550s was particularly serious and historians continue to debate the extent to which England's population fell as a result of poor harvests followed by epidemic influenza; figures for mortality vary from 5 ...
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... 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 American groups with disastrous results.
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The results were lethal; in Fiji c.b per cent of the population died, in Tonga the death rate was 10 per cent, while in Western Samoa the figure reached a horrifying 25 per cent ...
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As a result, though his book effectively captured the contemporary horror and panic as the 'Spanish Lady' circumnavigated the globe, it failed to grasp the event as a whole or put it into perspective, or even track it chronologically or ...

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List of illustrations
Introduction
Virological and pathological perspectives
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
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Howard Phillips, South African by birth, studied at the University of Cape Town and London University before joining the staff of the History Department at UCT in 1974. Since completing his doctoral thesis on the impact of the Spanish flu pandemic on South Africa (which was published in 1990), he has researched, taught and written on the medical history of South Africa. In 1998, together with David Killingray, he organised the first international conference on the influenza pandemic of 1918–19.David Killingray was born in 1939. He studied at the London School of Economics, the University of York, and the School of Oriental and African Studies where he gained a PhD in African history. He was a school teacher for 12 years in the UK and Tanzania. In 1972 he joined Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he is now Professor of Modern History. He has written books and many articles on aspects of African, Imperial, Caribbean and English local history, and has just completed a book on African soldiers in the Second World War.

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TitluThe Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: New Perspectives
Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
EditoriDavid Killingray, Howard Phillips
EditorRoutledge, 2003
ISBN1134566409, 9781134566402
Lungime384 pagini
  
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