Pale Rider : : the Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it Changed the World

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Call Number: 614.5 Sp, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / General / Spinney, Laura
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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tion: The elephant in the room -- Part 1: The unwalled city. Coughs and sneezes ; The monads of Leibniz -- Part 2: Anatomy of a pandemic. Ripples on a pond ; Like a thief in the night -- Part 3: Manhu, or What is it? Disease eleven ; The doctors' dilemma ; The wrath of God -- Part 4: The survival instinct. Chalking doors with crosses ; The placebo effect ; Good Samaritans -- Part 5: Post mortem. The hunt for patient zero ; Counting the dead -- Part 6: Science redeemed. Aenigmoplasma influenzae ; Beware the barnyard ; The human factor -- Part 7: The post-flu world. The green shoots of recovery ; Alternate histories ; Anti-science, science ; Healthcare for all? ; War and peace ; Melancholy muse -- Afterword: On memory.
"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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Stupendous submitted by Lady Macbeth on August 17, 2019, 4:47pm A relatively forgotten part of history, Laura Spinney sheds light on the extent of the illness and the way it affected societies all over the world. Emphasis on all over the world, she does not focus solely (or even primarily) on western societies

Comprehensive and Expansive submitted by wellscai on July 23, 2021, 5:53pm Thanks to COVID, I've been reading a lot of books about the Spanish flu pandemic, and Spinney's book has been the best I've read so far. She has a global focus, while many of the other books I've read focus on Europe and the United States. She addresses both the biology of the virus and the effects the flu had on people both during the pandemic and afterwards.