The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 : perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas /

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 sheds new light on what the World Health Organization described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded" by situating the Iberian Peninsula as the key point of connection, both epidemiologically and discursively,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Porras Gallo, M. Isabel (María Isabel) (Editor ), Davis, Ryan A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2014.
Colección:Rochester studies in medical history.
Temas:
1918-1919
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 > Portugal > History.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 > South America > History.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 > Spain > History.
Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919 > history
History, 20th Century
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype
Influenza, Human > history
Épidémie de grippe espagnole, 1918-1919 > Portugal > Histoire.
Épidémie de grippe espagnole, 1918-1919 > Amérique du Sud > Histoire.
Épidémie de grippe espagnole, 1918-1919 > Espagne > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Influenzavirus A (H1N1)
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > History.
Pandemie
Influenza-A-Virus
Grippe
Portugal
South America
Spain
Südamerika
Spanien
Aufsatzsammlung.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The great evolutionary potential of viruses : the 1918 flu as a paradigm of disease emergence / Esteban Domingo
  • Spanish flu in Brazil : searching for causes during the epidemic horror / Liane Maria Bertucci
  • Ricardo Jorge and the construction of a medico-sanitary public discourse : Portugal and international scientific networks / Maria de Fátima Nunes
  • And to make things worse, the flu : the Spanish influenza in a revolutionary Portugal / José Manuel Sobral, Maria Lúsa Lima, and Paulo Silveira e Sousa
  • Between the pandemic and World War I : the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in the Spanish army, through the eyes of the press / María-Isabel Porras-Gallo
  • The reign of the Spanish flu : impact and responses to the 1918 influenza pandemic in Minas Gerais, Brazil / Anny Jackeline Torres Silveira
  • The Spanish flu in Bahia, Brazil : prophylaxis and healing practices / Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza
  • A collaborative experience : the mutual benefit societies' responses to the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Pamplona, Spain / Pilar Lén-Sanz
  • A tale of two Spains : narrating the nation during the 1918-19 influenza epidemic / Ryan A. Davis
  • The Spanish flu in Argentina : an alarming hostage / Hernán Feldman
  • Epidemic disease, local government, and social control : the example of the city of Alicante, Spain / Josep Bernabeu-Mestre and Mercedes Pascual Artiaga
  • The gendered dimensions of epidemic disease : influenza in Montreal, Canada, 1918-20 / Magda Fahrni
  • Remembering and reconstructing : fictions of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic / Catherine Belling.

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