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Influenza and public health : learning from past pandemics / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and Susan Craddock ; with Jennifer Gunn.

Other author/creatorGiles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962-
Other author/creatorCraddock, Susan.
Other author/creatorGunn, Jennifer Lee.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Washington, DC : Earthscan,
Descriptionxviii, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010003067
ISBN9781844078967 (hardback)
ISBN1844078965 (hardback)

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