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The Spanish influenza pande...
On a global, multidisciplinary scale, the book applies the insights of social and medical sciences to an investigation of the pandemic, covering include the historiography, virology, demographic and its long-term effects
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monografia Rebiun36797750 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36797750 m o d | cr mn|---||||| 021120s2003 enka ob 001 0 eng 1-134-56640-9 0-203-46837-6 1-134-56641-7 1-280-07283-0 0-203-24545-8 9786610072835 CBUC 991011036988806709 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng 614.5/18/09041 21 15.59 bcl 44.75 bcl The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 new perspectives edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray London New York Routledge 2003 London New York London New York Routledge 1 online resource (369 p.) 1 online resource (369 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Routledge studies in the social history of medicine 12 Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-351) and index Cover; The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Notes on contributors; A virologist's foreword; A historian's foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Virological and pathological perspectives; 1 A virologist's perspective on the 1918-19 pandemic; 2 Genetic characterisation of the 1918 'Spanish' influenza virus; PART II Contemporary medical and nursing perspectives; 3 The plague that was not allowed to happen: German medicine and the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in Baden 4 'You can't do anything for influenza': doctors, nurses and the power of gender during the influenza pandemic in the United StatesPART III Official responses to the pandemic; 5 Japan and New Zealand in the 1918 influenza pandemic: comparative perspectives on official responses and crisis management; 6 Coping with the influenza pandemic: the Bombay experience; PART IV The demographic impact; 7 Spanish influenza in China, 1918-20: a preliminary probe; 8 Flu downunder: a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 epidemic in Sydney, Australia 9 The overshadowed killer: influenza in Britain in 1918-1910 Death in winter: Spanish flu in the Canadian subarctic; 11 Spanish influenza seen from Spain; 12 A holocaust in a holocaust: the Great War and the 1918 'Spanish' influenza epidemic in France; 13 Long-term effects of the 1918 'Spanish' influenza epidemic on sex differentials of mortality in the USA: exploratory findings from historical data; Part V Long-term consequences and memories; 14 'A fierce hunger': tracing impacts of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in southwest Tanzania 15 'The dog that did not bark': memory and the 1918 influenza epidemic in SenegalPart VI Epidemiological lessons of the pandemic; 16 Transmission of, and protection against, influenza: epidemiologic observations beginning with the 1918 pandemic and their implications; Notes; Bibliography; Index On a global, multidisciplinary scale, the book applies the insights of social and medical sciences to an investigation of the pandemic, covering include the historiography, virology, demographic and its long-term effects English Influenza- History- 20th century Phillips, H. Ph. D. Killingray, David 0-415-51079-1 0-415-23445-X Routledge studies in the social history of medicine 12