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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... responses to a disease which suddenly appeared killed so many and then disappeared took many forms – ' killing by a ... response to inexplicable disease.19 Compared to other continents , Asia probably suffered the highest death rates ...
... responses it evoked by means of a rich array of anecdotes, photographs, posters, handbills and cartoons. Though it was largely descriptive, without much understanding of what underlay these responses, it displayed an interest in the ...
... 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 short appendix on some of the basic questions not treated in his text ...
... responses it evoked. Crosby 'deserves plaudits for his provocative speculations and for his lively style which makes his solid scholarship eminently readable. His combination of medical, political, and social history is an effective one ...
... response it elicited and its economic impact — in ten Western hemisphere cities, in a bid to 'pull together some of the pieces of what is known about the pandemic and provide some comparative elements for a more general picture'.57 ...
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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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