A Global History of Influenza: Sharing and Controlling a Viral Disease in the 20th Century
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Eclipse Lib.
"Of protean diseases," wrote Sir Clifford Albutt, Cambridge Regius Professor of Physic in 1907, "influenza is the most protean." Summing up medical experience of the disease over the long nineteenth century, Albutt`s observation might just as well be a capsule of twentieth century medicine's experience of flu. Observers and sufferers alike have long been perplexed by the bewildering array of forms that flu can take. That flu can at once be a seasonal nuisance, a troublesome epidemic or a vast and potentially devastating pandemic disease has meant that each medical generation is vexed by the same question: what IS flu? Dr. Bresalier's story starts in the 18th century when the terms influenza was first defined and carries the reader to the present. His global account includes everything from the 1918-19 great Pandemic to the avian flu, latest incarnation of a disease that has ascribed many identities over the years. Exploring the changes and continuities in flu over the last three hundred years illuminates not only the difficulties we have in defining the flu but their social and political consequences in the lives of individuals, in policy making, in the organization and delivery of medical care., Hardcover, Label: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Academic, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2013-07-25, Studio: Bloomsbury Academic.

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Ninety years after the discovery of human influenza virus, Modern Flu traces the history of this breakthrough and its implications for understanding and controlling influenza ever since. Examining how influenza came to be defined as a viral disease in the first half of the twentieth century, it argues that influenza's viral identity did not suddenly appear with the discovery of the first human influenza virus in 1933. Instead, it was rooted in the development of medical virus research and virological ways of knowing that grew out of a half-century of changes and innovations in medical science that were shaped through two influenza pandemics, two world wars, and by state-sponsored programs to scientifically modernise British medicine. A series of transformations, in which virological ideas and practices were aligned with and incorporated into medicine and public health, underpinned the viralisation of influenza in the 1930s and 1940s. Collaboration, conflict and exchange between researchers, medical professionals and governmental bodies lay at the heart of this process. This book is a history of how virus researchers, clinicians, and epidemiologists, medical scientific and public health bodies, and institutions, and philanthropies in Britain, the USA and beyond, forged a new medical consensus on the identity and nature of influenza. Shedding new light on the modern history of influenza, this book is a timely account of how ways of knowing and controlling this intractable epidemic disease became viral.

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Sharing and Controlling a Viral Disease in the 20th Century, "A Global History of Influenza" traces flu's changing identity as a global disease through the 20th century. This book explores how the virus was first characterised as an infectious disease without borders by British, European and American medical and public health professionals at the fin de siecle; it then illuminates the crucial role of the 1918-19 pandemic in transforming influenza into a paradigmatic global infection and one of the key problems of 20th-century international health.Michael Bresalier charts the identification of the influenza virus in 1933 and how the subsequent development of new laboratory technologies to track the virus and produce vaccines underpinned the creation of the World Influenza Programme in 1948 - one of the very first initiatives of the World Health Organization (WHO). "A Global History of Influenza" illustrates that the fight against the disease was distinctly global in approach in the sixty years that followed and that this was built around a gift economy which facilitated the free circulation of virus samples, materials, techniques, skills, and information between nations, health organisations and vaccine manufacturers. Yet the re-emergence of flu as a major threat at the end of the twentieth century caused this system to come under attack, with developing countries - led by Indonesia - threatening to withdraw from the WHO, citing poor access to influenza vaccines and other supposed key benefits as the cause. This book shows that tensions and contradictions in global influenza control have deep historical roots and that international health systems based on ideas and practices of sharing can reproduce and create profound inequalities in access to vaccines, drugs and other vital medical resources. It is a vital study for anyone interested in the modern history of disease on a global scale.

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Sharing and Controlling a Viral Disease in the 20th Century, "A Global History of Influenza" traces flu's changing identity as a global disease through the 20th century. This book explores how the virus was first characterised as an infectious disease without borders by British, European and American medical and public health professionals at the fin de siecle; it then illuminates the crucial role of the 1918-19 pandemic in transforming influenza into a paradigmatic global infection and one of the key problems of 20th-century international health.Michael Bresalier charts the identification of the influenza virus in 1933 and how the subsequent development of new laboratory technologies to track the virus and produce vaccines underpinned the creation of the World Influenza Programme in 1948 - one of the very first initiatives of the World Health Organization (WHO). "A Global History of Influenza" illustrates that the fight against the disease was distinctly global in approach in the sixty years that followed and that this was built around a gift economy which facilitated the free circulation of virus samples, materials, techniques, skills, and information between nations, health organisations and vaccine manufacturers. Yet the re-emergence of flu as a major threat at the end of the twentieth century caused this system to come under attack, with developing countries - led by Indonesia - threatening to withdraw from the WHO, citing poor access to influenza vaccines and other supposed key benefits as the cause. This book shows that tensions and contradictions in global influenza control have deep historical roots and that international health systems based on ideas and practices of sharing can reproduce and create profound inequalities in access to vaccines, drugs and other vital medical resources. It is a vital study for anyone interested in the modern history of disease on a global scale.

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