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"The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth--from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus traveled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted--and often permanently altered--global politics, race relations and family structures, while spurring innovation in medicine, religion and the arts. It was partly responsible, Spinney argues, for pushing India to independence, South Africa to apartheid and Switzerland to the brink of civil war. It also created the true "lost generation." Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity"--Amazon.… (meer)
Een goed overzicht van de Spaanse griep en hoe die zich heeft ontwikkeld in de hele wereld. Vooral ook interessant om te vergelijken met de Corona pandemie. Niet alleen de medische aspecten, maar ook de sociale en economische aspecten worden behandeld. ( )
Een interessant overzicht van de Spaanse Griep en wat we er van kunnen leren. Dit boek is geschreven voordat het Corona virus toesloeg. Maar de parallellen zijn bijzonder interessant. Jammer dat het taalgebruik en de manier waarop het wordt beschreven wat populair aandoet. ( )
"Een vaccin gaat onze problemen niet oplossen .. Nu komt het aan op medewerking van het publiek. Het is daarbij essentieel dat de overheid eerlijk blijft tegen haar burgers
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For RSJF and the lost generations
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Introduction Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany abdicated on 9 November 1918 and in the streets of Paris there was jubilation.
Sometime around the winter solstice of 412 BC, a cough wracked the people of Perinthus, a port city on the Sea of Marmara in what was then northern Greece.
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...the demands of national security, a thriving economy and public health are rarely aligned, and elected representatives defending the first two undermine the third...
Victorian science would have left the world hard and clean and care, like a landscape in the moon, but this science is in truth but a little light in the darkness, and outside that limited circle of definite knowledge we see the loom and shadow of gigantic and fantastic possibilities around us, throwing themselves continually across our consciousness in such ways that it is difficult to ignore them. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Over the centuries, humans came to perceive flu as an increasingly intimate dance with the Devil, and even as they added to their knowledge, man and microbe continue to shape one another.
"The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth--from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus traveled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted--and often permanently altered--global politics, race relations and family structures, while spurring innovation in medicine, religion and the arts. It was partly responsible, Spinney argues, for pushing India to independence, South Africa to apartheid and Switzerland to the brink of civil war. It also created the true "lost generation." Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity"--Amazon.
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