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Rochester studies in medical history volume 30
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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 sheds new light on what the World Health Organization described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded" by situating the Iberian Peninsula as the key point of connection, both epidemiologically and discursively, between Europe and the Americas. The essays in this volume elucidate specific aspects of the pandemic that have received minimal attention until now, including social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to the pandemic and its relationship with civilian medicine, all in the context of World War I. As the authors point out, however, the experiences of 1918-19 remain persistently relevant to contemporary life, particularly in view of events such as the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic. Contributors: Mercedes Pascual Artiaga, Catherine Belling, Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, Ryan A, Davis, Esteban Domingo, Magda Fahrni, Hernán Feldman, Pilar León-Sanz, Maria Luísa Lima, Maria deFátima Nunes, María-Isabel Porras-Gallo, Anny Jackeline Torres Silveira, José Manuel Sobral, Paulo Silveira e Sousa, Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza. María-Isabel Porras-Gallo is Professor of History of Science in the Medical Faculty of Ciudad Real at the University of Castile-La Mancha (Spain). She is the author of Un reto para la sociedad madrileña: la epidemia de gripe de 1918-1919 and co-editor of El drama de la polio. Un problema social y familiar en la España franquista. Ryan A. Davis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University. He is the author of The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918
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The great evolutionary potential of viruses : the 1918 flu as a paradigm of disease emergence / Esteban Domingo -- Spanish flu in Brazil : searching for causes during the epidemic horror / Liane Maria Bertucci -- Ricardo Jorge and the construction of a medico-sanitary public discourse : Portugal and international scientific networks / Maria de Fátima Nunes -- And to make things worse, the flu : the Spanish influenza in a revolutionary Portugal / José Manuel Sobral, Maria Lúsa Lima, and Paulo Silveira e Sousa -- Between the pandemic and World War I : the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in the Spanish army, through the eyes of the press / María-Isabel Porras-Gallo -- The reign of the Spanish flu : impact and responses to the 1918 influenza pandemic in Minas Gerais, Brazil / Anny Jackeline Torres Silveira -- The Spanish flu in Bahia, Brazil : prophylaxis and healing practices / Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza -- A collaborative experience : the mutual benefit societies' responses to the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Pamplona, Spain / Pilar Lén-Sanz -- A tale of two Spains : narrating the nation during the 1918-19 influenza epidemic / Ryan A. Davis -- The Spanish flu in Argentina : an alarming hostage / Hernán Feldman -- Epidemic disease, local government, and social control : the example of the city of Alicante, Spain / Josep Bernabeu-Mestre and Mercedes Pascual Artiaga -- The gendered dimensions of epidemic disease : influenza in Montreal, Canada, 1918-20 / Magda Fahrni -- Remembering and reconstructing : fictions of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic / Catherine Belling
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