A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-16008-8 (ISBN)
Through outlining the history of influenza in the period, Mark Honigsbaum describes how the fear of disease permeated Victorian culture. These fears were amplified by the invention of the telegraph and the ability of the new mass-market press to whip up public hysteria. The flu therefore became a barometer of wider fin de siecle social and cultural anxieties, playing on fears engendered by economic decline, technology, urbanisation and degeneration. A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics is a vital new contribution towards our understanding of European history and the history of the media.
Mark Honigsbaum is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Zurich, and gained his DPhil at Queen Mary University, UK. He is the author ofThe Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria (2001). His second book Living With Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 (2009) was nominated as science book of the year by the Royal Society.
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Introduction: 'The Sphinx of Epidemic Diseases'
1. Pre-Modern Influenza
2.' An Epidemic Started by Telegraph': News, Sensation and Science
3. 'An Inexpressible Dread': Influenza, Nervousness and Psychosis
4. Demons and Disembodied Spirits: Influenza, Masculinity and Gothic Production at the Fin -de-Siecle
5.'Death is Very Busy Just Now': Influenza, Celebrity and Suffering
6. ' A sense of Dread is Very General': The First World War, the Spanish Flu and the Northcliffe Press
7. The 'Forgotten' Pandemic: Flu, Trauma and Modern Memory
8. Apocalypse Redux
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.05.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 21 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 376 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-16008-3 / 1350160083 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-16008-8 / 9781350160088 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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