Influenza and public health [electronic resource] : learning from past pandemics / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and Susan Craddock ; with Jennifer Gunn.
Material type: TextSeries: Science in society seriesPublication details: London ; Washington, D.C. : Earthscan, 2010.Description: xviii, 293 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9781849776448 (ebook : PDF)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Rodr�iguez-Oca�na -- 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 L�owy -- 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 -- Comment: Influenza histories and the coexistence of old and new / Fr�ed�eric 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 Gu�enel and Sylvia Klingberg -- Comment: Ethics and epidemics : reflections on contemporary stakes of transparency and equity / Marc Guerrier.
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