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Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic - A Dark Epilogue (Hardcover)
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Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic - A Dark Epilogue (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
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1918-1919 saw the end of the Great War and the eruption of the
largest epidemic in history, a pandemic of flu. Influenza struck
half the world's population, killing 50-100 million people in less
than a year. This work is the first examination of Britain's
experience of the pandemic. But this is not only history, as well
as telling the story of the "Spanish" influenza the book looks
forward and considers the possibilities of future pandemics,
including the dangers of bird flu. A "total" history, this book
ranges from the spread of the 1918-1919 pandemic, to the basic
biology of influenza, and how epidemics and pandemics are possible,
to consider the demographic, social, economic and political impacts
of such a massive pandemic, including the cultural dimensions of
naming, blame, metaphors, memory, the media, art and literature. In
many countries the pandemic precipitated the creation and expansion
of public healthcare as nothing else ever could. Despite this, in
subsequent times, the role and impact of the pandemic has been
overlooked, an oversight this work redresses. The British story of
the pandemic has never been told. Britain and the "1918-19
Influenza Pandemic" tells that story but also places it in its
fuller context with extensive material from around the world. The
book provides the most recent tally of the pandemic's impact,
including the vast mortality, as well as questioning the apparent
origins of the pandemic. An inter-disciplinary study, it stretches
from history and geography through to medicine in order to convey
the full magnitude of the first global medical "disaster" of the
twentieth century.
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