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Stacking the coffins : Influenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918-19 /
The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population. It is the world's greatest killing influenza pandemic, and is used as a worst case scenario for emerging infectious disease epidemics like the corona virus...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, U.K. :
Manchester University Press
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A 'mysterious malady' - or a 'perfect storm'?
- The flu: a news perspective
- Counting the ill and the dead
- 'Managing' the crisis
- The doctors' view: medical puzzle, politics and the search for cures
- Hospitals and other institutions: coping with crises
- Dying and surviving: eye witnesses
- Influenza as a political tool
- Epilogue: the long aftermath.