American Pandemic
The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9088092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfred W Crosby (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 150-152 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5045 • E-ISSN: 1468-4373 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jhmas/jrs046 |
| OpenAlex | W1992265373 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
In the final months of 1918 and the earliest months of 1919, a pandemic-of all such tidal waves of infection arithmetically the worst ever in absolute numbers of sick and dead-swept over our species.As many as one-third of all human beings fell ill and fifty million may have died, several times over as many as in combat in the World War to which the pandemic provided the continuo.This world-wide detonation of influenza was colossal, yet generations passed with only a few serious observers of the human experience-historians, poets, epidemiologists, and the like-paying it much attention.Examine the works of the most famous of America's literary masters of the first half of the twentieth century: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, et al.You will find little about the 1918 flu.One outstanding exception is Pale Horse, Pale Rider (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939).Its author
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |