America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918
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America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918
Cambridge University Press, 2003
2nd ed
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Epidemic and peace : 1918
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Originally published as: Epidemic and peace : 1918. -- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976
First ed. published by Cambridge University Press: 1989
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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