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  title info:
    title: Pale rider
    sub title: the Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world
  name:
    name part: Spinney, Laura
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First US Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 332 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  abstract: "The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth--from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus traveled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted--and often permanently altered--global politics, race relations and family structures, while spurring innovation in medicine, religion and the arts. It was partly responsible, Spinney argues, for pushing India to independence, South Africa to apartheid and Switzerland to the brink of civil war. It also created the true "lost generation." Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity"--Amazon.
  table of contents: Introduction: The elephant in the room -- part 1. The unwalled city: Coughs and sneezes ; The monads of Leibniz -- part 2. Anatomy of a pandemic: Ripples on a pond ; Like a thief in the night -- part 3. Manhu, or What is it?: Disease eleven ; The doctors' dilemma ; The wrath of God -- part 4. The survival instinct: Chalking doors with crosses ; The placebo effect ; Good Samaritans -- part 5. Post mortem: The hunt for patient zero ; Counting the dead -- part 6. Science redeemed: Aenigmoplasma influenzae ; Beware the barnyard ; The human factor -- part 7. The post-flu world: The green shoots of recovery ; Alternate histories ; Anti-science, science ; Healthcare for all? ; War and peace ; Melancholy muse -- part 8. Roscoe's legacy -- Afterword: On memory.
  note: Laura Spinney.
  note: Includes bibliographical resources (pages 298-317) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
  subject:
    topic: Influenza
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Communicable diseases
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL / Epidemiology
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
  subject:
    topic: Influenza
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Communicable diseases
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
    topic: History
  classification: RC150.4 .S65 2017
  classification: 614.5/1809041
  identifier: 9781610397674
  identifier: 1610397673
  identifier: 2017933356
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 170113
    record change date: 20171005133126.0
    record identifier: in00003895003
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng