America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

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Alfred W. Crosby

Brand: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521833943

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Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-stricken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event. This 2003 edition includes a preface discussing the then recent outbreaks of diseases, including the Asian flu and the SARS epidemic.

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Brand Cambridge University Press

Reference 99098

EAN13 9780521833943

ISBN 9780521833943

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Publication date: 2003
Issue number: 2
Cover: hard cover
Pages count: 356
Dimensions (mm): 157.00 x 231.00
Weight (g): 690

Part I. An Abrupt Introduction to Spanish Influenza:: 1. The great shadow; Part II. Spanish Influenza:: The First Wave - Spring and Summer, 1918:: 2. The advance of the influenza virus; 3. Three explosions - Africa, Europe, and America; Part III. The Second and Third Waves:: 4. The United States begins to take note; 5. Spanish Influenza sweeps the country; 6. Flu in Philadelphia; 7. Flu in San Francisco; 8. Flu at sea on voyage to France; 9. Flu and the American expeditionary force; 10. Flu and the Paris Peace Conference; Part IV. Measurements, Research, Conclusions, and Confusions:: 11. Statistics, definitions, and speculations; 12. Samoa and Alaska; 13. Research, frustration, and the isolation of the virus; 14. Where did the flu of 1918 go?; Part V. Afterword:: 15. An inquiry in the peculiarities of human memory.

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