{"product_id":"epidemic-encounters-influenza-society-and-culture-in-canada-1918-20-hardback-9780774822121","title":"Epidemic Encounters; Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20 (Hardback) 9780774822121","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEpidemic Encounters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInfluenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMagda Fahrni (Edited by), Esyllt W. Jones (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780774822121\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 May 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 13 tables, 2 maps, 7 charts, 5 photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHealth crises such as the SARS epidemic and H1N1 have rekindled interest among historians, medical authorities, and government officials in the 1918 influenza pandemic, a crisis that swept the globe in the wake of the First World War and killed approximately 50 million people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEpidemic Encounters\u003c\/em\u003e zeroes in on Canada, where one-third of the population took ill and fifty-five thousand people died, to consider the various ways in which this country was affected by the pandemic. How did military and medical authorities, health care workers, and ordinary citizens respond? What role did social inequalities play in determining who survived? To answer these questions as they pertained to both local and national contexts, the contributors explore a number of key themes and topics, including the experiences of nurses and Aboriginal peoples, public letter writing in Montreal, the place of the epidemic within industrial modernity, and the relationship between mourning and interwar spiritualism. In the process, they offer new insights into medical history's usefulness in the struggle against epidemic disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \/ \u003cem\u003eMagda Fahrni and Esyllt Jones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Public Responses to the Influenza Pandemic in Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 The Limits of Necessity: Public Health, Dissent, and the War Effort during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic \/ \u003cem\u003eMark Osborne Humphries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 \"Rendering Valuable Service\": The Politics of Nursing during the 1918-19 Influenza Crisis \/ \u003cem\u003eLinda Quiney\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 \"Respectfully Submitted\": Citizens and Public Letter Writing during Montreal's Influenza Epidemic, 1918-20 \/ \u003cem\u003eMagda Fahrni\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Who Contracted Influenza and Why?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 The North-South Divide: Social Inequality and Mortality from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Hamilton, Ontario \/ \u003cem\u003eD. Ann Herring and Ellen Korol\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Beyond Biology: Understanding the Social Impact of Infectious Disease in Two Aboriginal Communities \/ \u003cem\u003eKaren Slonim\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 A Geographical Analysis of the Spread of Spanish Influenza in Quebec, 1918-20 \/ \u003cem\u003eFrancis Dubois, Jean-Pierre Thouez, and Denis Goulet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Influenza and the Limits of Modernity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 Flu Stories: Engaging with Disease, Death, and Modernity in British Columbia, 1918-19 \/ \u003cem\u003eMary-Ellen Kelm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8 Spectral Influenza: Winnipeg's Hamilton Family, Interwar Spiritualism, and Pandemic Disease \/ \u003cem\u003eEsyllt Jones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Influenza and Public Health in the Contemporary Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 Toronto's Health Department in Action: Influenza in 1918 and SARS in 2003 \/ \u003cem\u003eHeather MacDougall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion \/ \u003cem\u003eEsyllt Jones and Magda Fahrni\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"UBC Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531054674200,"sku":"9780774822121","price":60.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/epidemic-encounters-influenza-society-and-culture-in-canada-1918-20-hardback-9780774822121","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}