The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 : new perspectives / edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, H. (Howard), 1949-

Killingray, David.

Series:

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 12.

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Influenza--History--20th century.

Influenza.

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

The Spanish Flu pandemic killed 30-50 million people in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and is lodged in the popular memory of that generation. The chapters in this book have been structured around five main themes to explore the medical and societal ramifications of this disease: the virology of the pandemic, medical responses, official responses, the demographic impact and the long-term effects of the pandemic. The origins of the virus, the global spread, impact and consequences of the pandemic are all explored in detail. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

Contents:

Part I Virological and pathological perspectives 27

1 A virologist's perspective on the 1918-19 pandemic / Edwin D. Kilbourne 29

2 Genetic characterisation of the 1918 'Spanish' influenza virus / Jeffery K. Taubenberger 39

Part II Contemporary medical and nursing perspectives 47

3 The plague that was not allowed to happen: German medicine and the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in Baden / Wilfried Witte 49

4 'You can't do anything for influenza': doctors, nurses and the power of gender during the influenza pandemic in the United States / Nancy K. Bristow 58

Part III Official responses to the pandemic 71

5 Japan and New Zealand in the 1918 influenza pandemic: comparative perspectives on official responses and crisis management / Geoffrey W. Rice 73

6 Coping with the influenza pandemic: the Bombay experience / Mridula Ramanna 86

Part IV The demographic impact 99

7 Spanish influenza in China, 1918-20: a preliminary probe / Wataru Iijima 101

8 Flu downunder: a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 epidemic in Sydney, Australia / Kevin Mccracken, Peter Curson 110

9 The overshadowed killer: influenza in Britain in 1918-19 / N.P.A.S. Johnson 132

10 Death in winter: Spanish flu in the Canadian subarctic / D. Ann Herring, Lisa Sattenspiel 156

11 Spanish influenza seen from Spain / Beatriz Echeverri 173

12 A holocaust in a holocaust: the Great War and the 1918 'Spanish' influenza epidemic in France / Patrick Zylberman 191

13 Long-term effects of the 1918 'Spanish' influenza epidemic on sex differentials of mortality in the USA: exploratory findings from historical data / Andrew Noymer, Michel Garenne 202

Part V Long-term consequences and memories 219

14 'A fierce hunger': tracing impacts of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in southwest Tanzania / James G. Ellison 221

15 'The dog that did not bark': memory and the 1918 influenza epidemic in Senegal / Myron Echenberg 230

Part VI Epidemiological lessons of the pandemic 239

16 Transmission of, and protection against, influenza: epidemiologic observations beginning with the 1918 pandemic and their implications / Stephen C. Schoenbaum 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-351) and index.

ISBN:

041523445X

OCLC:

51088103