Influenza and public health : learning from past pandemics / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and Susan Craddock ; with Jennifer Gunn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962-

Craddock, Susan

Gunn, Jennifer Lee

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Science in society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Influenza--History.

Influenza.

Influenza, Human--history.

Disease Outbreaks--history.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

History, 21st Century.

Public Health--history.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Influenza, Human--history.

Disease Outbreaks--history.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

History, 21st Century.

Public Health--history.

Physical Description:

xviii, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.

Contents:

Globalized complexity and the microbial traffic of new and emerging infectious disease threats / S. Harris Ali

Barcelona's influenza : a comparison of the 1889-1890 and 1918 autumn outbreaks / Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña

Prevent or heal, laissez-faire or coerce? : the public health politics of influenza in France, 1918-1919 / Anne Rasmussen

Comment: Influenza epidemics and the politics of historical analogy / Patrick Zylberman

Comment: Influenza and historians : a difficult past / Ilana Löwy

Are influenzas in southern China byproducts of the region's globalizing historical present? / Robert G. Wallace, Luke Bergmann, Lenny Hogerwerf and Marius Gilber

Past influenza epidemics and implications for contemporary influenza research / Sylvie van der Werf

Influenza and the remaking of epidemiology, 1918-1960 / John M. Eyler

Hong Kong flu (1968) revisited 40 years later / Claude Hannoun with Susan Craddock. Influenza histories and the coexistence of old and new / Frédéric Keck

Mobility restrictions, isolation, and quarantine : historical perspectives on contemporary debates / Tamara Giles-Vernick, Susan Craddock, and Jennifer Gunn

Flu epidemics, knowledge sharing and intellectual property / Maurice Cassier

Biosecurity in the time of avian influenza, Vietnam / Annick Guénel and Sylvia Klingberg

Comment: Ethics and epidemics : reflections on contemporary stakes of transparency and equity / Marc Guerrier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781844078967

1844078965

OCLC:

502393362