Influenza and Public Health

by Giles-Vernick, Tamara; Craddock, Susan; Gunn, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9781844078967
• ISBN10: 1844078965
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-31
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their transmission and impact. With accelerated levels of commercial and population mobility, new forms of flu virus can also spread across the globe with unprecedented speed. Responding quickly and adequately to each outbreak becomes imperative on the part of governments and global public health organizations, but the difficulties of doing so are legion. One tool for pandemic planning is analysis of responses to past pandemics that provide insight into productive ways forward.This book investigates past influenza pandemics in light of today's, so as to afford critical insights into possible transmission patterns, experiences, mistakes, and interventions. It explores several pandemics over the past century, from the infamous 1918 Spanish Influenza, the avian flu epidemic of 2003, and the novel H1N1 pandemic of 2009, to lesser-known outbreaks such as the 1889-90 influenza pandemic and the Hong Kong Flu of 1968. Contributors to the volume examine cases from a wide range of disciplines, including history, sociology, epidemiology, virology, geography, and public health, identifying patterns that cut across pandemics in order to guide contemporary responses to infectious outbreaks.

Author Biography

Tamara Giles-Vernick is Associate Professor in the Unit of the Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases at the Institute Pasteur in Paris. Susan Craddock is Associate Professor at the Institute for Global Studies and the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiv
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Globalized Complexity and the Microbial Traffic of New and Emerging Infectious Disease Threats	p. 22
Reframing 1918: States, Pandemics and Public Health
Barcelona's Influenza: A Comparison of the 1889-1890 and 1918 Autumn Outbreaks	p. 41
Prevent or Heal, Laissez-Faire or Coerce? The Public Health Politics of Influenza in France, 1918-1919	p. 69
Comment: Influenza Epidemics and the Politics of Historical Analogy	p. 84
Comment: Influenza and Historians: A Difficult Past	p. 91
Epidemiology, Virology and 20th-Century Epidemics
Are Influenzas in Southern China Byproducts of the Region's Globalizing Historical Present?	p. 101
Past Influenza Epidemics and Implications for Contemporary Influenza Research	p. 145
Influenza and the Remaking of Epidemiology, 1918-1960	p. 156
Hong Kong Flu (1968) Revisited 40 Years Later	p. 181
Comment: Influenza Histories and the Coexistence of Old and New	p. 192
Governmental and Nongovernmental Institutions and the Politics of Epidemic Management
Mobility Restrictions, Isolation and Quarantine: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Debates	p. 201
Flu Epidemics, Knowledge Sharing and Intellectual Property	p. 221
Biosecurity in the Time of Avian Influenza, Vietnam	p. 241
Comment: Ethics and Epidemics: Reflections on Contemporary Stakes in Transparency and Equity	p. 256
Short Comment	p. 266
Short Comment	p. 269
Short Comment	p. 270
Short Comment	p. 273
Conclusion	p. 275
Index	p. 289
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