Mark Honigsbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1154483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Honigsbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Honigsbaum |
| SIGNATURE | HONIGSBAUM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1891-8763 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
RFK Jr could be a disaster for American healthcare
Walking the wall
The "Spanish" Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary
Few diseases are extensively diffused as influenza, but though flu pandemics occur with regularity throughout history the bibliography is dominated by the 1918-1919 “Spanish influenza” pandemic. This review argues that this preoccupation is largely a product of historical epidemiology and retrospective statistical analysis which has made the Spanish flu the reference point against which other modern respiratory pandemics, including COVID-19, are …
Stacking the Coffins
Reviewed by: Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918–19 by Ida Milne Mark Honigsbaum Ida Milne. Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918–19. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. xii + 263 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-1-5261-2269-8). Influenza, it seems, is the microbe that keeps on giving. When in 1998 Howard Phillips and David Killingray convened a conference in Cape Town to open up new …
Introduction
René Dubos, tuberculosis, and the “ecological facets of virulence”
Reflecting on his scientific career toward the end of his life, the French-educated medical researcher René Dubos presented his flowering as an ecological thinker as a story of linear progression-the inevitable product of the intellectual seeds planted in his youth. But how much store should we set by Dubos's account of his ecological journey? Resisting retrospective biographical readings, this paper seeks to relate the development of Dubos's eco…
Influenza Encyclopedia
In recent years, as a succession of epidemic scares have grabbed headlines, panicking politicians and the public alike, historians of medicine have found themselves in unusual demand within policy-making circles. For no group is this more true than for historians of the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic, which, according to the latest estimates, killed some 50 million people worldwide—550,000 in the United States alone. Largely ignored at the time—par…
Ryan A. Davis, The Spanish Flu
It is truth universally acknowledged that a social historian in possession of an epidemic must be in want of a narrative. As Ryan Davis, an assistant professor of Spanish at Illinois State University, puts it, citing Charles Rosenberg, ‘[e]pidemics start at a moment in time, proceed on a stage limited in space and duration, following a plot line of increasing and revelatory tension, move to a crisis of individual and collective character, then dr…
George Dehner, Influenza
In the past 40 years, technically driven responses to flu pandemics have twice called science and public health into disrepute. The most recent occasion was in 2009 when the unexpected emergence of a quadruple reassortment swine flu virus in Mexico triggered contracts for the distribution of billions of dollars worth of antiviral drugs and vaccines—the political fallout from which, in light of the mild nature of the pandemic, is still the subject…
Susan D. Jones, Death in a Small Package
A few weeks after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon a series of letters containing an innocuous looking beige-coloured powder arrived at the offices of United States Congressman Tom Daschle. Containing spores of Bacillus anthracis that had been weaponised so as to float freely in the air, the letters would result in 22 people, including four US postal workers, contracting anthrax, a deadly disease that in previous c…
Frances Larson, An Infinity of Things
The Great Dread
This article examines the impact of the 1889–93 ‘Russian’ influenza on late Victorian society and culture. Using medical officer of health and national and local newspaper reports, and the poetry and memoirs of prominent survivors, I argue that the rapid progress of the influenza across Europe and the morbidity of leading politicians and other members of the British establishment occasioned widespread ‘dread’ and in some cases panic. This dread o…
Living with Enza
'Never since the Black Death has such a plague swept over the face of the world,' commented the Times , '[and] never, perhaps, has a plague been more stoically accepted.' When the Great Influenza pandemic finally ended, in April 1919, 228,000 people in Britian alone were dead. This book tells the story of the Great Influenza pandemic
The Great Dread
This article examines the impact of the 1889–93 ‘Russian’ influenza on late Victorian society and culture. Using medical officer of health and national and local newspaper reports, and the poetry and memoirs of prominent survivors, I argue that the rapid progress of the influenza across Europe and the morbidity of leading politicians and other members of the British establishment occasioned widespread ‘dread’ and in some cases panic. This dread o…
RFK Jr could be a disaster for American healthcare
René Dubos, tuberculosis, and the “ecological facets of virulence”
Reflecting on his scientific career toward the end of his life, the French-educated medical researcher René Dubos presented his flowering as an ecological thinker as a story of linear progression-the inevitable product of the intellectual seeds planted in his youth. But how much store should we set by Dubos's account of his ecological journey? Resisting retrospective biographical readings, this paper seeks to relate the development of Dubos's eco…
Living with Enza
'Never since the Black Death has such a plague swept over the face of the world,' commented the Times , '[and] never, perhaps, has a plague been more stoically accepted.' When the Great Influenza pandemic finally ended, in April 1919, 228,000 people in Britian alone were dead. This book tells the story of the Great Influenza pandemic
Frances Larson, An Infinity of Things
The Great Dread
This article examines the impact of the 1889–93 ‘Russian’ influenza on late Victorian society and culture. Using medical officer of health and national and local newspaper reports, and the poetry and memoirs of prominent survivors, I argue that the rapid progress of the influenza across Europe and the morbidity of leading politicians and other members of the British establishment occasioned widespread ‘dread’ and in some cases panic. This dread o…
Susan D. Jones, Death in a Small Package
A few weeks after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon a series of letters containing an innocuous looking beige-coloured powder arrived at the offices of United States Congressman Tom Daschle. Containing spores of Bacillus anthracis that had been weaponised so as to float freely in the air, the letters would result in 22 people, including four US postal workers, contracting anthrax, a deadly disease that in previous c…
George Dehner, Influenza
In the past 40 years, technically driven responses to flu pandemics have twice called science and public health into disrepute. The most recent occasion was in 2009 when the unexpected emergence of a quadruple reassortment swine flu virus in Mexico triggered contracts for the distribution of billions of dollars worth of antiviral drugs and vaccines—the political fallout from which, in light of the mild nature of the pandemic, is still the subject…
Ryan A. Davis, The Spanish Flu
It is truth universally acknowledged that a social historian in possession of an epidemic must be in want of a narrative. As Ryan Davis, an assistant professor of Spanish at Illinois State University, puts it, citing Charles Rosenberg, ‘[e]pidemics start at a moment in time, proceed on a stage limited in space and duration, following a plot line of increasing and revelatory tension, move to a crisis of individual and collective character, then dr…
René Dubos, tuberculosis, and the “ecological facets of virulence”
Reflecting on his scientific career toward the end of his life, the French-educated medical researcher René Dubos presented his flowering as an ecological thinker as a story of linear progression-the inevitable product of the intellectual seeds planted in his youth. But how much store should we set by Dubos's account of his ecological journey? Resisting retrospective biographical readings, this paper seeks to relate the development of Dubos's eco…
Influenza Encyclopedia
In recent years, as a succession of epidemic scares have grabbed headlines, panicking politicians and the public alike, historians of medicine have found themselves in unusual demand within policy-making circles. For no group is this more true than for historians of the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic, which, according to the latest estimates, killed some 50 million people worldwide—550,000 in the United States alone. Largely ignored at the time—par…
Stacking the Coffins
Reviewed by: Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918–19 by Ida Milne Mark Honigsbaum Ida Milne. Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918–19. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. xii + 263 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-1-5261-2269-8). Influenza, it seems, is the microbe that keeps on giving. When in 1998 Howard Phillips and David Killingray convened a conference in Cape Town to open up new …
Introduction
Walking the wall
The "Spanish" Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary
Few diseases are extensively diffused as influenza, but though flu pandemics occur with regularity throughout history the bibliography is dominated by the 1918-1919 “Spanish influenza” pandemic. This review argues that this preoccupation is largely a product of historical epidemiology and retrospective statistical analysis which has made the Spanish flu the reference point against which other modern respiratory pandemics, including COVID-19, are …
RFK Jr could be a disaster for American healthcare
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