Bibliograph

America's forgotten pandemic, the influenza of 1918, Alfred W. Crosby

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Label

America's forgotten pandemic, the influenza of 1918, Alfred W. Crosby

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

America's forgotten pandemic

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

52312428

Responsibility statement

Alfred W. Crosby

Sub title

the influenza of 1918

Table Of Contents

Part I: An abrupt introduction to Spanish influenza -- The great shadow -- Part 2: Spanish influenza: The first wave--spring and summer, 1918 -- The advance of the influenza virus -- Three explosions--Africa, Europe, and America -- Part 3: The second and third waves -- The United Sates begins to take note -- Spanish influenza sweeps the country -- Flu in Philadelphia -- Flu in San Francisco -- Flu at sea on the voyage to France -- Flu and the American expeditionary force -- Flu and the Paris Peace Conference -- Part 4: Measurements, research, conclusions, and confusions -- Statistics, definitions, and speculation -- Samoa and Alaska -- Research, frustration, and the isolation of the virus -- Where did the Flu of 1918 go? -- Part 5: Afterword -- An inquiry into the peculiarities of human memory

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