Fever of war
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare.The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.
כותר |
Fever of war : the Influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I / Carol R Byerly. |
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מוציא לאור |
New York, NY : New York University Press |
שנה |
[2005] |
הערות |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-236) and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. Medical Heroes -- 2. Building a Healthy Army -- 3. Worst-Case Scenario -- 4 .Fighting Germs and Germans -- 5. Postmortem -- 6. “Except for the Flu . . .” -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (270 p.) |
שפה |
אנגלית |
שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2005 |
מספר מערכת |
997010719285605171 |
תצוגת MARC
תגיות
- United States. Army Medical care History.
- United States. Armáda
- United States. Armii︠a︡
- United States. Tsava
- U.S. Army
- US Army
- World War, 1914-1918 Health aspects.
- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Europe.
- Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919
- Spanish Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919
- Spanish Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
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