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Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Niall Johnson
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BBC 1999c
Bird Flu
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Cerebro Spinal Fever
Complicated Influenza
demographic impact
Encephalitis Lethargica
epidemics
epidemiology
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government
H5N1 Strain
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Health 1920c
Influenza Deaths
Influenza Mortality
Influenza Pandemic
Influenza Virus
local
medical humanities
mortality
NAA A2
National Public Health Systems
Nucleic Acid Vaccines
Pandemic Mortality
pandemic response
Pe Rc
Pfeiffer's Bacillus
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Phillips 1990a
Pneumonic Complications
public health history
Purulent Bronchitis
social effects of epidemics
Sub-clinical Infection
Swine Flu Virus
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Tomkins 1992a
Total Excess Mortality
twentieth century influenza research
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780415514149
  • Weight: 460g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jul 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This is the first book to provide a total history and seriously analyze the British experiences during that time.

The book provides the most up-to-date tally of the pandemic’s impact, including the vast mortality, as well as questioning the apparent origins of the pandemic. A ‘total’ history, this book ranges from the spread of the 1918–1919 pandemic, to the basic biology of influenza, and how epidemics and pandemics are possible, to consider the demographic, social, economic and political impacts of such a massive pandemic, including the cultural dimensions of naming, blame, metaphors, memory, the media, art and literature.

An inter-disciplinary study, it stretches from history and geography through to medicine in order to convey the full magnitude of the first global medical ‘disaster’ of the twentieth century, and looks ahead to possible pandemics of the future.

Niall Johnson brings an impressive scholarly eye on this fascinating and highly relevant topic making this essential reading for historians and those with an interest in British and medical history.
About Niall Johnson
Niall Johnson is a respected authority on the 1918–19 influenza pandemic. In addition to writing his PhD (Cambridge) on the British experience of the pandemic he has published and presented numerous research papers on this topic, including articles in leading medical, history and history of medicine journals, and has acted as expert consultant to Granada Media for a Channel Four documentary on the pandemic. 

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