Influenza and public health learning from past pandemics / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and Susan Craddock ; with Jennifer Gunn.
| Other author | Giles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962- |
| Other author | Craddock, Susan. |
| Other author | Gunn, Jennifer Lee. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, |
| Description | xviii, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Science in society series Science in society series. ^A700048 |
| Contents | Globalized complexity and the microbial traffic of new and emerging infectious disease threats / S. Harris Ali -- Barcelona's influenza : a comparison of the 1889-1890 and 1918 autumn outbreaks / Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña -- Prevent or heal, laissez-faire or coerce? : the public health politics of influenza in France, 1918-1919 / Anne Rasmussen -- Comment: Influenza epidemics and the politics of historical analogy / Patrick Zylberman -- Comment: Influenza and historians : a difficult past / Ilana Löwy -- Are influenzas in southern China byproducts of the region's globalizing historical present? / Robert G. Wallace, Luke Bergmann, Lenny Hogerwerf and Marius Gilber -- Past influenza epidemics and implications for contemporary influenza research / Sylvie van der Werf -- Influenza and the remaking of epidemiology, 1918-1960 / John M. Eyler -- Hong Kong flu (1968) revisited 40 years later / Claude Hannoun with Susan Craddock. Influenza histories and the coexistence of old and new / Frédéric Keck -- Mobility restrictions, isolation, and quarantine : historical perspectives on contemporary debates / Tamara Giles-Vernick, Susan Craddock, and Jennifer Gunn -- Flu epidemics, knowledge sharing and intellectual property / Maurice Cassier -- Biosecurity in the time of avian influenza, Vietnam / Annick Guénel and Sylvia Klingberg -- Comment: Ethics and epidemics : reflections on contemporary stakes of transparency and equity / Marc Guerrier. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010003067 |
| ISBN | 9781844078967 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1844078965 (hardback) |
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