The pandemic of 1918-20-commonly known as the Spanish flu-infected
over a quarter of the world's population and killed over fifty
million people. It is by far the greatest humanitarian disaster
caused by an infectious disease in modern history. Epidemiologists
and health scientists often draw on this experience to set the
plausible upper bound (the 'worst case scenario') on future
pandemic mortality. The purpose of this study is to piece together
and analyse the scattered multi-disciplinary literature on the
pandemic in order to place debates on the evolving course of the
current COVID-19 crisis in historical perspective. The analysis
focuses on the changing characteristics of pathogens and disease
over time, the institutional factors that shaped the global spread,
the demographic and socio-economic consequences, and pharmaceutical
and non-pharmaceutical responses to the pandemic. This title is
also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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