A Global History of Influenza traces flu's changing identity as a global disease through the 20th century. This book explores how the virus was first characterised as an infectious disease without borders by British, European and American medical and public health professionals at the fin de siecle; it then illuminates the crucial role of the 1918-19 pandemic in transforming influenza into a paradigmatic global infection and one of the key problems of 20th-century international health.
Michael Bresalier charts the identification of the influenza virus in 1933 and how the...
A Global History of Influenza traces flu's changing identity as a global disease through the 20th century. This book explores how the virus ...
In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as `human' medicine was in fact deeply zoological.Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and were changed by medicine.
In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals t...
In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as `human' medicine was in fact deeply zoological.Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and were changed by medicine.
In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals t...
