Epidemic Encounters
Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2012
- Category
- Social History, General, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774822121
- Publish Date
- May 2012
- List Price
- $37.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774822138
- Publish Date
- Jan 2013
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774822145
- Publish Date
- May 2012
- List Price
- $125.00
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Description
Health crises such as the SARS epidemic and H1N1 have rekindled interest in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which swept the globe after the First World War and killed approximately fifty million people. Epidemic Encounters zeroes in on Canada, where one-third of the population took ill and fifty-five thousand people died, to consider the various ways in which this country was affected by the pandemic. How did military and medical authorities, health care workers, and ordinary citizens respond? What role did social inequalities play in determining who survived? Contributors answer these questions as they pertained to both local and national contexts. In the process, they offer new insights into medical history’s usefulness in the struggle against epidemic disease.
About the authors
Magda Fahrni is an assistant professor in the Department of History at l?Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al.
Esyllt W. Jones lives and teaches history in Winnipeg. She is the author of the award-winning Influenza 1918: Death, Disease and Struggle in Winnipeg, and is currently working on a reinterpretation of the origins of medicare in Canada.