Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Emerging Perspectives of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 1
4. Part One Scientific Discourse: Now and Then
5. 1 The Great Evolutionary Potential of Viruses: The 1918 Flu as a Paradigm of Disease Emergence 21
6. 2 Spanish Flu in Brazil: Searching for Causes during the Epidemic Horror 39
7. 3 Ricardo Jorge and the Construction of a Medico-Sanitary Public Discourse: Portugal and International Scientific Networks 56
8. Part Two Social Responses: Human and Institutional Actors
9. 4 And to Make Things Worse, the Flu: The Spanish Influenza in a Revolutionary Portugal 75
10. 5 Between the Pandemic and World War I: The 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Spanish Army, through the Eyes of the Press 93
11. 6 The Reign of the Spanish Flu: Impact and Responses to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Minas Gerais, Brazil 111
12. 7 The Spanish Flu in Bahia, Brazil: Prophylaxis and Healing Practices 130
13. 8 A Collaborative Experience: The Mutual Benefit Societies’ Responses to the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in Pamplona, Spain 152
14. Part Three Interpreting the Epidemic: Sociocultural Dynamics and Perspectives
15. 9 A Tale of Two Spains: Narrating the Nation during the 1918–19 Influenza Epidemic 173
16. 10 The Spanish Flu in Argentina: An Alarming Hostage 194
17. 11 Epidemic Disease, Local Government, and Social Control: The Example of the City of Alicante, Spain 215
18. 12 The Gendered Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Influenza in Montreal, Canada, 1918–20 230
19. 13 Remembering and Reconstructing: Fictions of the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic 248
20. Selected Bibliography 265
21. List of Contributors 269
22. Index 275