Influenza and public health
Subtitle: learning from past pandemics
By: edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and Susan Craddock ; with Jennifer Gunn.
Contributors: Giles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962-; Craddock, Susan.; Gunn, Jennifer Lee.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781844078967
Subjects: Influenza -- History; Influenza, Human -- history; Disease Outbreaks -- history; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Public Health -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalized complexity and the microbial traffic of new and emerging infectious disease threats / Harris Ali; title: Barcelona's influenza : a comparison of the 1889-1890 and 1918 autumn outbreaks / Esteban Rodriguez-Ocaña; title: Prevent or heal, laisser faire or coerce : the public health politics of influenza in France, 1918-1919 / Anne Rasmussen. Influenza epidemics and the politics of historical analogy / Patrick Zylberman. Influenza and historians : a difficult past / Ilana Löwy; title: Are influenzas in southern China byproducts of its globalizing historical present? / Robert G. Wallace and Luke Bergmann; title: Recent influenza epidemics and implications for contemporary influenza research / Sylvie van der Werf; title: Influenza and the remaking of epidemiology, 1918-1960 / John Eyler; title: Hong Kong flu (1968) revisited 40 years later / Claude Hannoun with Susan Craddock. Influenza histories and the coexistence of old and new / Frédéric Keck; title: Mobility restrictions, isolation, and quarantine : historical perspective on contemporary debates / Tamara Giles-Vernick, Susan Craddock, and Jennifer Gunn; title: Influenza, intellectual property, and knowledge sharing / Maurice Cassier; title: Biosecurity in the time of avian influenza, Vietnam / Annick Guenel and Sylvia Klingberg. Ethics and epidemics : Reflections on the contemporary stakes of transparency and equity / Marc Guerrier.