Top 11 Books About The Spanish Flu Updated 04 /2024

Pandemic 1918 : the story of the deadliest influenza in history by Arnold, Catharine

ISBN: 9781782438090

Publication Date: 2018

Before AIDS or Ebola, there was the Spanish Flu. Catharine Arnold's book Pandemic 1918 marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that changed the world. In January 1918, as World War I went on, a new and terrifying virus spread across the world. Flu killed more than 50 million people in three waves from 1918 to 1919. There were many different names for the pandemic. German troops used the term Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers used Flanders Grippe, and the world-wide name was "Spanish Flu." The United States killed 550,000 people (five times the number of people killed in the war), and Europe killed more than two million people. Some governments tried to keep the news of the war from people. While entire battalions were wiped out, both the Allies and the Germans lost a lot of people, many servicemen's deaths were kept secret to keep public morale up. Civilian families were also being killed in their own homes at the same time. For a long time, the City of Philadelphia didn't have enough gravediggers or coffins. Steam shovels had to be used to dig up mass burial trenches for people. During the Spanish flu, people thought about the Black Death of 1348 and the great plague of 1665. The medical profession, which had been shattered by five years of war, didn't have the resources to contain and defeat this new enemy. This is the first time anyone has given a truly global account of the disease. Historian Catharine Arnold used primary and archived sources to do this.

Viral Modernism by Elizabeth Outka

ISBN: 9780231185745

Publication Date: 2019-10-22

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed between 50 and 100 million people around the world, and the United States lost more people than in all the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries put together. Even though the pandemic killed a lot of people, it didn't stay in people's minds in the United States or Europe because of the war and the turmoil of the interwar period. In Viral Modernism, Elizabeth Outka shows how one of the deadliest diseases in history had an impact on literature and culture. She shows how it shaped some of the most important works of fiction and poetry. What Outka does is show how and why modernism changes when we take into account the pandemic's hidden but widespread presence in the world. She looks at the miasmic effects of the pandemic and its spectral dead in English and American literature from the 1920s and 1930s. She finds the traces of an outbreak that brought a nonhuman, invisible horror into every community. How did literature and culture show the virus's deathly fecundity? Viral Modernism looks at how the virus was shown in literature and culture, and how writers tried to figure out how many people died in the home as they feared a wider social collapse. Outka looks at how authors like Katherine Anne Porter and Thomas Wolfe use the pandemic in their work, as well as how Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and W. B. Yeats use it in their work in a more subtle way. She tries to find connections between the disease and popular culture, from early zombie resurrections to the revival of spiritualism, and she finds a lot of them. As a result, Viral Modernism shows us a huge tragedy that has been hidden in plain sight for years.

As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner

ISBN: 9780399585968

Publication Date: 2018-02-06

In 1918, Philadelphia was a city that was full of hope and promise. People could start anew on its cobblestone streets even as young men went to fight in the Great War. When Pauline Bright and her husband came into this busy city, they were filled with hope that they could now give their three daughters a better life. Evelyn, Maggie, and Willa were born in this city. But just a few months after they arrive, the Spanish Flu spreads across the ocean to the United States. At some point, more than 12,000 people in their new city die from the pandemic. They are left with a world that looks nothing like the one they used to live in. But even as they lose their friends and family, they take in a baby who was orphaned by the disease and becomes their only source of hope. They learn what they can't live without and what they're willing to do about it in the midst of tragedy and difficulties.

Influenza by Jeremy Brown

ISBN: 9781501181245

Publication Date: 2018-12-18

A veteran ER doctor who has worked in the field for many years talks about the terrifying and complicated history of influenza, including how the virus came to be and how it killed millions. Jeremy Brown answers questions like: Are we ready for the next pandemic? Should you get a flu shot? and how close are we to finding a cure? In the past, influenza was thought of as a common and mild disease. It still kills over 30,000 people in the United States each year. A doctor at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jeremy Brown, talks about the flu's deadly history in order to figure out how to keep us safe from the next outbreak. In Influenza, he talks to top epidemiologists, policymakers, and the researcher who first sequenced the genetic building blocks of the 1918 virus to give both a detailed history and a roadmap for what's to come. He also talks to the person who first sequenced the 1918 virus's DNA. Dr. Brown talks about how the flu virus was found and resurrected in the frozen bodies of people who died in the 1918 epidemic. He also talks about the strange remedies that were used to treat the disease, like whiskey and blood-letting. When you read the book Influenza, you will learn about the debate over vaccinations, antiviral drugs like Tamiflu, and the federal government's role when there is a pandemic outbreak. Dr. Brown says that even though 100 years have passed since the 1918 flu pandemic, many of the most important questions about the virus remain unanswered even by the world's best doctors. Influenza is an eye-opening look at a deadly virus that can change its shape and kill. It also tells us that it may be a long time before we can get rid of it for good.

Pale Rider by Laura Spinney

ISBN: 9781610397674

Publication Date: 2017-09-12

They had almost nothing in common except for one thing: a virus. This virus triggered the worst pandemic in modern history and changed the history of the twentieth century in a big way. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the worst things that ever happened to people. Illness spread to one third of the world's people, from the poorest immigrants in New York City to the king of Spain and Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. Even though 50 to 100 million people died, it is only in our minds as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney tells the story of a pandemic that many people didn't know about. She shows how the virus spread across the world, exposing humanity's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. Socially important as both world wars, the Spanish flu shook up global politics, race relations, and family structures. It also spurred new ideas in medicine, religion, and the arts. Spinney says that it played a part in pushing India to independence, South Africa to apartheid, and Switzerland to the brink of war. It also led to the real "lost generation." History, virology, epidemiology, psychology, and economics all come together in Pale Rider to tell the story of a little-known disaster that changed the world.

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 by María-Isabel Porras-Gallo (Editor); Ryan A. Davis (Editor)

ISBN: 9781580464963

Publication Date: 2014-11-15

Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 is a new look at what the World Health Organization called "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded." It places the Iberian Peninsula as the main link between Europe and the Americas both epidemiologically and in terms of language. The essays in this book show how the pandemic affects social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, military medicine's response to the pandemic, and civilian medicine's response to the pandemic and military medicine's relationship with civilian medicine. Because of events like the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic and the Ebola outbreak in 2014, the experiences of 1918-19 are still relevant to today. The authors say that World War I, which is the backdrop for these discussions, is the subject of these talks. Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, Liane Maria Bertucci, Ryan A. Davis, Esteban Domingo, Magda Fahrni, and Hernán Feldman are some of the people who worked on this project. Pilar León-Sanz, Maria Luisa Lima, Maria de Fátima Nunes, Mercedes Pascual Artiaga, Mara-Isabel Porras-Gallo, Anny Jackeline Torres Silveira, José Manuel Sobral, Paulo Silveira e Sousa, and Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza are some of the people who were in the group. It's called the Medical Faculty in Ciudad Real at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Mara-Isabel Porras-Gallo is an expert on the history of science at the university (Spain). There is an assistant professor named Ryan A. Davis at Illinois State University who teaches in the department of languages, literatures, and cultures about languages, literatures and cultures. There are people named Ar León-Sanz, Maria Luisa Lima, Mercedes Pascual Artiaga, and Maria de Fátima Nunes at this event. The people in this picture are: Maria Isabel Porras-Gallo, Anny Jackeline Torres Silveira, José Manuel Sobral, Paulo Silveira and Sousa, and Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza. It's called the Medical Faculty in Ciudad Real at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Mara-Isabel Porras-Gallo is an expert on the history of science at the university (Spain). There is an assistant professor named Ryan A. Davis at Illinois State University who teaches in the department of languages, literatures, and cultures about languages, literatures and cultures. Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza Sousa is the name of the person who was born in Souza. It's called the Medical Faculty in Ciudad Real at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Mara-Isabel Porras-Gallo is an expert on the history of science at the university (Spain). There is an assistant professor named Ryan A. Davis at Illinois State University who teaches in the department of languages, literatures, and cultures about languages, literatures and cultures.

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