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Lädt ... The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (2005. Auflage)von John M. Barry (Autor)
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Young readers notwithstanding, this is a scaled down version of the original which I listened to for 19 and a half hours a few years ago on audiobook. That one was excellent but occasionally a bit more technical than others might like (I am a retired nurse). This is timeless history as we have learned with the recent COVID pandemic and people need to know the similarities and differences in the human responses. I am giving this caveat because the copy I requested and received from PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Young Readers Group, Viking Books for Young Readers via NetGalley is not TTS enabled. All the book's other merits and shortfalls notwithstanding, one should bear in mind, that this narrative is tremendously focused on US experience of the influenza of 1918-19. An outrageously enormous skew, for that matter. Events in Europe and the rest of the world are mentioned mostly in the passing.
John M. Barry calls The Great Influenza "the epic story of the deadliest plague in history," but his book is somewhat more idiosyncratic than epic and in any case is not as interested in the 1918 influenza pandemic as in the careers of those American medical researchers who studied the disease. Barry organizes his story as a conflict between medicine and disease. The influenza pandemic, he writes, was ''the first great collision between nature and modern science''; ''for the first time, modern humanity, a humanity practicing the modern scientific method, would confront nature in its fullest rage.' AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
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In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, THE GREAT INFLUENZA weaves together multiple narratives, with characters ranging from William Welch, founder of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, to John D. Rockefeller and Woodrow Wilson. Ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, this crisis provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Alas, the chapters do not have titles, only the sections do.
Chapter 1: Truth seeps in gradually, but change is very slow. Placebos were named as still being prescribed today in America, Germany & Japan. The discussion jumps back and forth across centuries to make the author’s point that improvement is generally resisted with great vigor.
Chapter 2 & 3: William Henry Welch
Chapter 4: Other notable people - the development of medicine in America
Chapter 10: Woodrow Wilson imposed censorship, etc. in the United States, coming down harshly against those who spoke against the government policies. Truth was also distorted to promote his goals. “To shape public opinion, Wilson established the first modern propaganda office.” (Wikipedia)
Chapter 11: A little about Woodrow Wilson; Mostly about overcrowding, etc. causing rampant disease in military camps.
Chapter 15: “THE 1918 INFLUENZA PANDEMIC, like many other influenza pandemics, came in waves. The first spring wave killed few, but the second wave would be lethal.” (First Paragraph)
Chapter 18: “Capps did write the JAMA article. He reported finding the masks so successful that after less than three weeks of experimenting he had abandoned testing and simply started using them as “a routine measure.”
Chapter 19: “In Philadelphia, meanwhile, fear came and stayed. Death could come from anyone, anytime. People moved away from others on the sidewalk, avoided conversation; if they did speak, they turned their faces away to avoid the other person’s breathing. People became isolated, increasing the fear.”
Chapter 32: Woodrow Wilson lost mental capacity after being infected by influenza. There were after effects in 1918 and we see residual effects in people infected in 2020. Thus, even if it doesn’t kill, it may have long lasting effects on the person infected.
Chapter Afterword: “For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it’s that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis. Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don’t manage the truth. You tell the truth.“ In the absence of truth, terror reigns. ( )