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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 - New Perspectives (Paperback)
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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 - New Perspectives (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
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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. On a global,
multidisciplinary scale, the book seeks to apply the insights of a
wide range of social and medical sciences to an investigation of
the pandemic. Topics covered include the historiography of the
pandemic, its virology, the enormous demographic impact, the
medical and governmental responses it elicited, and its long-term
effects, particularly the recent attempts to identify the precise
causative virus from specimens taken from flu victims in 1918, or
victims buried in the Arctic permafrost at that time.
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