Alfred W. Crosby, Crosby Alfred W.

America's Forgotten Pandemic

The Influenza of 1918

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the influenza pandemic of 1918 1919 that claimed over 25 million lives worldwide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 731g
• ISBN-13: 9780521833943
• ISBN-10: 0521833949
• Artikelnr.: 22214531

Inhaltsangabe

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.