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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... Zealand failed to protect itself or to prevent the spread of the pandemic to island communities in the South Pacific. As the disease moved through New Zealand in November–December 1918 it killed more Maori than Pakehas (White Men). 27 ...
... Zealand, Australia and Brazil; in the 20 years before 1976 only four such theses had been submitted. By far the best-known academic history of the pandemic to appear from these years, Alfred Crosby's Epidemic and Peace 1918 (1976), 51 ...
... Zealand and Japan to juxtapose the responses of two very different Pacific Rim societies , to the considerable illumination of both , Mridula Ramanna's chapter is , astonishingly , the first local study of how colonial Indian ...
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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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