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Fever of war : the influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I /

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History of medicine

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byerly, Carol R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Communicable Diseases > history.
Influenza, Human > history.
Epidemics > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Medical heroes : medical officers' confidence as they prepare for war
  • Building a healthy army : government control and accountability
  • Worst-case scenario : the influenza epidemic of 1918 in the camps
  • Fighting germs and Germans : influenza in the American Expeditionary Forces
  • Postmortem : the trauma of failure, 1918-1919
  • "Except for the flu ... " : writing the history of the epidemic
  • Memory and the politics of disease and war