Front Matter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Public Responses to the Influenza Pandemic in Canada
7. The Limits of Necessity: Public Health, Dissent, and the War Effort during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic 21
8. “Rendering Valuable Service”: The Politics of Nursing during the 1918-19 Influenza Crisis 48
9. “Respectfully Submitted”: Citizens and Public Letter Writing during Montreal’s Influenza Epidemic, 1918–20 70
10. Who Contracted Influenza and Why?
11. The North-South Divide: Social Inequality and Mortality from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Hamilton, Ontario 97
12. Beyond Biology: Understanding the Social Impact of Infectious Disease in Two Aboriginal Communities 113
13. A Geographical Analysis of the Spread of Spanish Influenza in Quebec, 1918–20 142
14. Influenza and the Limits of Modernity
15. Flu Stories: Engaging with Disease, Death, and Modernity in British Columbia, 1918-19 167
16. Spectral Influenza: Winnipeg’s Hamilton Family, Interwar Spiritualism, and Pandemic Disease 193
17. Influenza and Public Health in the Contemporary Context
18. Toronto’s Health Department in Action: Influenza in 1918 and SARS in 2003 225
19. Conclusion 266
20. Selected Bibliography 272
21. Contributors 279
22. Index 282