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American Pandemic - The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (Hardcover, New)
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American Pandemic - The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (Hardcover, New)
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Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in
the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty
million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet
despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a
forgotten moment in our nation's past. American Pandemic offers a
much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the influenza
outbreak. It sheds light on the social and cultural history of
Americans during the pandemic, uncovering both the causes of the
nation's public amnesia and the depth of the quiet remembering that
endured. Focused on the primary players in this drama-patients and
their families, friends, and community, public health experts, and
health care professionals-historian Nancy K. Bristow draws on
multiple perspectives to highlight the complex interplay between
social identity, cultural norms, memory, and the epidemic. Bristow
has combed a wealth of primary sources, including letters, diaries,
oral histories, memoirs, novels, newspapers, magazines,
photographs, government documents, and health care literature. She
shows that though the pandemic caused massive disruption in the
most basic patterns of American life, influenza did not create
long-term social or cultural change, serving instead to reinforce
the status quo and the differences and disparities that defined
American life. As the crisis waned, the pandemic slipped from the
nation's public memory. The helplessness and despair Americans had
suffered during the pandemic, Bristow notes, was a story poorly
suited to a nation focused on optimism and progress. For countless
survivors, though, the trauma never ended, shadowing the remainder
of their lives with memories of loss. This book lets us hear these
long-silent voices, reclaiming an important chapter in the American
past.
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