The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 - Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas

Sheds new light on what the WHO described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded," focusing on social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to thepandemic.

List of contents

Introduction: Emerging Perspectives of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic 1918-19
The Great Evolutionary Potential of Viruses: The 1918 Flu as a Paradigm of Disease Emergence
Spanish Flu in Brazil: Searching for Causes during the Epidemic Horror
Ricardo Jorge and the Construction of a Medico-Sanitary Public Discourse: Portugal and International Scientific Networks
And to Make Things Worse, the Flu: The Spanish Influenza in a Revolutionary Portugal
Between the Pandemic and World War I: The 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in the Spanish Army, through the Eyes of the Press
The Reign of the Spanish Flu: Impact and Responses to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Minas Gerais, Brazil
The Spanish Flu in Bahia, Brazil: Prophylaxis and Healing Practices
A Collaborative Experience: The Mutual Benefit Societies' Responses to the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Pamplona, Spain
A Tale of Two Spains: Narrating the Nation during the 1918-19 Influenza Epidemic
The Spanish Flu in Argentina: An Alarming Hostage
Epidemic Disease, Local Government, and Social Control: The Example of the City of Alicante, Spain
The Gendered Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Influenza in Montreal, Canada, 1918-20
Remembering and Reconstructing: Fictions of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

About the author

María-Isabel Porras-Gallo, Ryan A. Davis

Product details

• Authors: María-Isabel Porras-Gallo
• Assisted by: Ryan A Davis (Editor), Ryan A. Davis (Editor), Maria Porras-Gallo (Editor), Maria-Isabel Porras-Gallo (Editor), María-Isabel Porras-Gallo (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2014
• EAN: 9781580464963
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-496-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 599 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Geschichte der Medizin, Rechtsmedizin, Forensik, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, Medical / Nursing