The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas

Sheds new light on what the WHO described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded," focusing on social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to thepandemic.

Situating the Iberian Peninsula as the key point of connection between Europe and the Americas, both epidemiologically and discursively, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 sheds new light on what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464963
• ISBN13: 9781580464963
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"