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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100670894737
ISBN-139780670894734
eBay Product ID (ePID)5952553
Product Key Features
Number of Pages560 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGreat Influenza : the Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
SubjectInfectious Diseases, History, World, Epidemiology
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMedical, History
AuthorJohn M. Barry
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight33.3 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-057646
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsPraise for Rising Tide: An important contribution to history and literature.” (Los Angeles Times) Praise for Rising Tide: Extraordinary . . . an accomplished and important social history.” (The New York Times Book Review), Praise for Rising Tide : “An important contribution to history and literature.â€� ( Los Angeles Times ) Praise for Rising Tide : “Extraordinary . . . an accomplished and important social history.â€� ( The New York Times Book Review )
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal614.5/1809041
Table Of Contentprologue 1 Part I: THE WARRIORS 9 Part II: THE SWARM 89 Part III: THE TINDERBOX 117 Part IV: IT BEGINS 167 Part V: EXPLOSION 195 Part VI: THE PESTILENCE 229 Part VII: THE RACE 253 Part VIII: THE TOLLING OF THE BELL 297 Part IX: LINGERER 367 Part X: : GAME 399 afterword 448 Acknowledgments 463 Notes 467 Bibliography 507 Index 529
SynopsisNo disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty years; it killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages killed in a century. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken, and died. In the United States, where bodies were stacked without coffins on trucks, nearly seven times as many people died of influenza as in the First World War. In his powerful new book, award-winning historian John M. Barry unfolds a tale that is magisterial in its breadth and in the depth of its research, and spellbinding as he weaves multiple narrative strands together. In this first great collision between science and epidemic disease, even as society approached collapse, a handful of heroic researchers stepped forward, risking their lives to confront this strange disease. Titans like William Welch at the newly formed Johns Hopkins Medical School and colleagues at Rockefeller University and others from around the country revolutionized American science and public health, and their work in this crisis led to crucial discoveries that we are still using and learning from today. The Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley said Barry's last book can ?change the way we think.' The Great Influenzamay also change the way we see the world.
LC Classification NumberRC150.4.B37 2004
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- 08. Mai. 2020
Kudos for the great influenza!
The Great Influenza by John Barry is an Excellent educational read. I read it when it first came out and ended up buying copies for medically oriented friends. I recommend it highly!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 28. Sep. 2020
Descriptive
Perspective on how other dealt with plagueBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 31. Jan. 2022
Informative
Great informationBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 18. Feb. 2020
Very informative
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- 18. Apr. 2019
Riveting narrative
Gripping detailBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
