The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: New Perspectives

by Killingray,David

• ISBN13: 9780415234450
• ISBN10: 041523445X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Spanish Flu pandemic killed 30-50 million people in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and is lodged in the popular memory of that generation. The chapters in this book have been structured around five main themes to explore the medical and societal ramifications of this disease: the virology of the pandemic, medical responses, official responses, the demographic impact and the long-term effects of the pandemic. The origins of the virus, the global spread, impact and consequences of the pandemic are all explored in detail.

Table of Contents

List of illustraions	x
List of tables	xii
Notes on contributors	xiii
A virologist's foreword	xvii
A historian's foreword	xx
Acknowledgements	xxii
Introduction	1	(26)
HOWARD PHILLIPS AND DAVID KILLINGRAY
PART I Virological and pathological perspectives	27	(20)
1 A virologist's perspective on the 1918-19 pandemic	29	(10)
EDWIN D. KILBOURNE
2 Genetic characterisation of the 1918 'Spanish' influenza virus	39	(8)
JEFFERY K. TAUBENBERGER
PART II Contemporary medical and nursing perspectives	47	(24)
3 The plague that was not allowed to happen: German medicine and the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in Baden	49	(9)
WILFRIED WITTE
4 'You can't do anything for influenza': doctors, nurses and the power of gender during the influenza pandemic in the United States	58	(13)
NANCY K. BISTROW
PART III Official responses to the pandemic	71	(28)
5 Japan and New Zealand in the 1918 influenza pandemic: comparative perspectives on official responses and crisis management	73	(13)
GEOFFREY W. RICE
6 Coping with the influenza pandemic: the Bombay experience	86	(13)
MRIDULA RAMANNA
PART IV The demographic impact	99	(120)
7 Spanish influenza in China, 1918-20: a preliminary probe	101	(9)
WATARU IIJIMA
8 Flu downunder: a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 epidemic in Sydney, Australia	110	(22)
KEVIN MCCRACKEN AND PETER CURSON
9 The overshadowed killer: influenza in Britain in 1918-19	132	(24)
N.P.A.S. JOHNSON
10 Death in winter: Spanish flu in the Canadian subarctic	156	(17)
D. ANN HERRING AND LISA SATTENSPIEL
11 Spanish influenza seen from Spain	173	(18)
BEATRIZ ECHEVERRI
12 A holocaust in a holocaust: the Great War and the 1918 'Spanish' influenza epidemic in France	191	(11)
PATRICK ZYLBERMAN
13 Long-term effects of the 1918 'Spanish' influenza epidemic on sex differentials of mortality in the USA: exploratory findings from historical data	202	(17)
ANDREW NOYMER AND MICHEL GARENNE
PART V Long-term consequences and memories	219	(22)
14 'A fierce hunger': tracing impacts of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in southwest Tanzania	221	(9)
JAMES G. ELLISON
15 'The dog that did not bark': memory and the 1918 influenza epidemic in Senegal	230	(11)
MYRON ECHENBERG
PART VI Epidemiological lessons of the pandemic
16 Transmission of, and protection against, influenza: epidemiologic observations beginning with the 1918 pandemic and their implications	241	(60)
STEPHEN C. SCHOENBAUM
Notes	252	(49)
Bibliography	301	(52)
COMPILED BY JÜRGEN MÜLLER
Index	353