Main description:

A century ago, the greatest pandemic since the Black Death engulfed the world. From spring 1918, a deadly form of influenza rapidly developed and struck hundreds of millions of people. By spring 1919, it had left 50 million dead. This book charts the enduring legacies of that cataclysmic year and tells the story of what happened after 1918. Not only did the pandemic haunt the individual and collective memories of survivors, it became a touchstone for generations tasked with protecting the health of nations and the international community.

Contents:

Introduction: The Afterlives of the Great Pandemic (Michael Bresalier) Part One: Origins 1. Genesis and spread of "Spanish Influenza": From France to the USA, 1916-1918 (John Oxford) 2. Paths of Infection: The First World War and the Origins of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Mark Humphries) Part Two: Past and Present 3. Parisian Press and the "Spanish Flu" (Avner Bar-Hen and Patrick Zylberman) 4. The Flu Strikes Back: Changing temporalities between the "Russian" and "Spanish" Influenza Epidemics in France, 1889-1919 (Frederic Vagneron) 5. Jim Crow and Influenza: The pandemic and racial segregation in rural South Texas, 1918-1919 (James E. Higgins) Part Three: Legacies 6. Forgetting and Remembering: The Human Legacy of the 1918 Pandemic in the United States (Nancy Bristow) 7. Recollecting Influenza: Form, remembrance, and interpretation in Canada's pandemic (Esyllt Jones) 8. Epidemic encephalitis, an inversion of influenza (Kenton Kroker) 9. ): From Bacteriology to Virology: Influenza Vaccination in Germany, 1918-1960 (Wilfried Witte) Part Four: Surveillance and Control 10. An Elusive Foe: The U.S. Army's Pursuit of Influenza from the 1920s to the 1970s (Catol R. Byerly) 11. Creating the World Influenza Surveillance System: Surveillance with a Purpose (George Dehner) 12. The 1957 Influenza Pandemic and Biological Warfare Planning: An Unexplored Relationship (Donald H. Avery) 13. Prevention and Preparedness: Anthropological perspectives on the globalization of influenza (Meike Wolf) Part Five: Zoonotic connections 14. Making the human-animal connection: Swine 'flu in the Netherlands, 1918-1945 (Floor Haalboom) 15. Making Influenza Zoonotic: Veterinary science, Asian pandemics, and the World Health Organization, 1956-1976 (Michael Bresalier) 16. How Hong Kong Became a Sentinel for Avian Flu (Frederic Keck) 17. Historical ecologies of avian influenza: Mass poultry vaccination and the problem of re-emerging H5N1 viruses in China, 1997-2015 (Lyle Fearnley) Part Six: Pandemic Politics 18. Crises that didn't come: Responses to pandemic influenza threats: USA 1976, France 2009 (Francois Buton and Frederic Pierru) 19. False alarms and uncertain risks: reflections on "the pandemic that never was (Mark Honigsbaum) 20. The virus sharing controversy: Global health diplomacy as social drama (Rachel Irwin and Richard Smith) 21. WHO vaccine and path dependency (Sudeepa Abeysinghe) Reflections (Susan Craddock and Virginia Berridge)