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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, Hernan Feldman, Pilar Leon-Sanz, Maria Luisa Lima, Maria deFatima Nunes, Maria-Isabel Porras-Gallo, Anny Jackeline Torres Silveira, Jose Manuel Sobral, Paulo Silveira e Sousa, Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza. Maria-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 madrilena: la epidemia de gripe de 1918-1919 and co-editor of El drama de la polio. Un problema social y familiar en la Espana 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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Book category Books in English Medicine Medicine: general issues History of medicine

• Full title: Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
• Subtitle: Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas
• Author: Mar?a-Isabel Porras-Gallo
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 325
• EAN: 9781580464963
• ISBN: 1580464963
• ID: 04822810
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Weight: 419 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 150 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 2014

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