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The Great Influenza : The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History by John
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- 9780670894734
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670894737
ISBN-13
9780670894734
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5952553
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Great Influenza : the Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
Subject
Infectious Diseases, History, World, Epidemiology
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Medical, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
33.3 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-057646
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Praise for Rising Tide: An important contribution to history and literature.” (Los Angeles Times) Praise for Rising Tide: Extraordinary . . . an accomplished and important social history.” (The New York Times Book Review), Praise for Rising Tide : “An important contribution to history and literature.â€� ( Los Angeles Times ) Praise for Rising Tide : “Extraordinary . . . an accomplished and important social history.â€� ( The New York Times Book Review )
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
614.5/1809041
Table Of Content
prologue 1 Part I: THE WARRIORS 9 Part II: THE SWARM 89 Part III: THE TINDERBOX 117 Part IV: IT BEGINS 167 Part V: EXPLOSION 195 Part VI: THE PESTILENCE 229 Part VII: THE RACE 253 Part VIII: THE TOLLING OF THE BELL 297 Part IX: LINGERER 367 Part X: : GAME 399 afterword 448 Acknowledgments 463 Notes 467 Bibliography 507 Index 529
Synopsis
No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty years; it killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages killed in a century. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken, and died. In the United States, where bodies were stacked without coffins on trucks, nearly seven times as many people died of influenza as in the First World War. In his powerful new book, award-winning historian John M. Barry unfolds a tale that is magisterial in its breadth and in the depth of its research, and spellbinding as he weaves multiple narrative strands together. In this first great collision between science and epidemic disease, even as society approached collapse, a handful of heroic researchers stepped forward, risking their lives to confront this strange disease. Titans like William Welch at the newly formed Johns Hopkins Medical School and colleagues at Rockefeller University and others from around the country revolutionized American science and public health, and their work in this crisis led to crucial discoveries that we are still using and learning from today. The Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley said Barry's last book can ?change the way we think.' The Great Influenzamay also change the way we see the world.
LC Classification Number
RC150.4.B37 2004
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- 08 May, 2020
Kudos for the great influenza!
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- 28 Sep, 2020
Descriptive
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Informative
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Very informative
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Riveting narrative
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