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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... impact . Epidemic outbreaks of influenza occurred before 1918. 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 ...
... impact was relatively light in Europe and North America , the areas of the world whose academies effectively defined what then constituted ' scientific history ' ; and second , that , as the Spanish flu amounted to an enormous rout in ...
... impact . Its focus is solely the pandemic's course and the human responses it evoked in the short term . Ultimately , the whole is no more than the sum of its many vignettes , which is probably why Collier felt constrained to add a ...
... impact on the war and the peacemaking which followed it. In regard to the latter, he postulated (without convincing many) that President Woodrow Wilson had been so incapacitated by an attack of Spanish flu at Versailles that his ...
... impact at the level of the private individual rather than public policy. For the millions of people who had lost loved ones, Crosby argued, it was clearly a (if not 'the') watershed event in their lives. Though this argument became ...
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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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