Epidemic Encounters
Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918–20
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23525388 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Magda Fahrni, Esyllt W Jones (0009-0003-4010-7304) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Epidemic Encounters (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.59962/9780774822145 |
| OpenAlex | W4385722515 |
| ISBN | 9780774822145 |
| Open Library | OL44263886M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Health crises such as the SARS epidemic and H1N1 have rekindled interest among historians, medical authorities, and government officials in the 1918 influenza pandemic, a crisis that swept the globe in the wake of the First World War and killed approximately 50 million people. Epidemic Encounters zeroes in on Canada, where one-third of the population took ill and fifty-five thousand people died, to consider the various ways in which this country was affected by the pandemic. How did military and medical authorities, health care workers, and ordinary citizens respond? What role did social inequalities play in determining who survived? To answer these questions as they pertained to both local and national contexts, the contributors explore a number of key themes and topics, including the experiences of nurses and Aboriginal peoples, public letter writing in Montreal, the place of the epidemic within industrial modernity, and the relationship between mourning and interwar spiritualism. In the process, they offer new insights into medical history’s usefulness in the struggle against epidemic disease.
Geography · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · 1914-1918 · 1918-1919 · 1939-1945 · 20th century · canada · Delivery of Health Care · Epidemics · Épidémie de grippe espagnole · epidemiology · Guerre mondiale · Historiographie · Historiography · History · Human Influenza · Influenza · Influenza Epidemic · Medical care · modern · Services médicaux et sanitaires · Social aspects · Soins médicaux · World War · World War I · World war, health aspects
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |