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American pandemic : the lost worlds of the 1918 influenza epidemic / Nancy K. Bristow.

Bristow, Nancy K., 1958- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780199811342
ISBN: 0199811342
ISBN: 9780190238551
ISBN: 0190238550
Physical Description: xiii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, ©2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"Influenza has apparently become domesticated with us" : influenza, medicine and the public, 1890-1918 -- "The whole world seems up-side-down" : patients, families and communities confront the epidemic -- "Let our experience be of value to other communities" : public health experts, the people, and progressivism -- "The experience was one I shall never forget" : doctors, nurses, and challenges of the epidemic -- "The terrible and wonderful experience" : forgetting and remembering the aftermath.