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Epidemic Encounters

Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20

edited by Magda Fahrni & Esyllt W. Jones

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
May 2012
Category
Social History, Post-Confederation (1867-), General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774822121
    Publish Date
    May 2012
    List Price
    $37.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774822138
    Publish Date
    Jan 2013
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774822145
    Publish Date
    May 2012
    List Price
    $125.00

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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.

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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.

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