Stacking the Coffins
Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918–19
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2018
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2269-8 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2269-8 (ISBN)
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A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic’s effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life – culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life. -- .
The 1918–19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population. It is the world's greatest killing influenza pandemic, and is used as a worst case scenario for emerging infectious disease epidemics like the corona virus COVID-19. It decimated families, silenced cities and towns as it passed through, stilled commerce, closed schools and public buildings and put normal life on hold. Sometimes it killed several members of the same family. Like COVID-19 there was no preventative vaccine for the virus, and many died from secondary bacterial pneumonia in this pre-antibiotic era. In this work, Ida Milne tells how it impacted on Ireland, during a time of war and revolution. But the stories she tells of the harrowing impact on families, and of medicine's desperate search to heal the ill, could apply to any other place in the world at the time. -- .
The 1918–19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population. It is the world's greatest killing influenza pandemic, and is used as a worst case scenario for emerging infectious disease epidemics like the corona virus COVID-19. It decimated families, silenced cities and towns as it passed through, stilled commerce, closed schools and public buildings and put normal life on hold. Sometimes it killed several members of the same family. Like COVID-19 there was no preventative vaccine for the virus, and many died from secondary bacterial pneumonia in this pre-antibiotic era. In this work, Ida Milne tells how it impacted on Ireland, during a time of war and revolution. But the stories she tells of the harrowing impact on families, and of medicine's desperate search to heal the ill, could apply to any other place in the world at the time. -- .
Ida Milne is an Irish Research Council Marie Curie Elevate Fellow at Maynooth Universtiy -- .
1 A ‘mysterious malady’ – or a ‘perfect storm’?
2 The flu: a news perspective
3 Counting the ill and the dead
4 ‘Managing’ the crisis
5 The doctors’ view: medical puzzle, politics and the search for cures
6 Hospitals and other institutions: coping with crises
7 Dying and surviving: eye witnesses
8 Influenza as a political tool
9 Epilogue: the long aftermath
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.09.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Maps |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-2269-3 / 1526122693 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-2269-8 / 9781526122698 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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