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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... less virulent wave in 1919. The virus spread rapidly along the conduits of war and commerce to engulf the entire world in a matter of a few weeks . A modern system of global communications , of steamships and railways , along with the ...
... less likely to succumb to influenza. This was the case whether a country was at war or at peace. This age-gender death pattern still remains something of a mystery. The cause may have been genetic or physiological. Another reason may be ...
... less attention to its social and cultural sides and its long-term consequences than these merit. It is thus a book whose substantial promise is not fulfilled, providing what the Bulletin of the History of Medicine called 'a valuable ...
... less ambitious agenda , whose response to the stimuli of the last quarter - century was to focus on one particular feature of the pandemic . For instance , historical geographers have tracked the pandemic's pathways across oceans ...
... less obvious fields like administrative and political history, military history and the nature of memory. With regard to its toll, they begin to point to answers to four of the most crucial questions left by the pandemic: how many died ...
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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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