Stacking the coffins : influenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918-19 / Ida Milne.
Material type: TextSeries: Manchester History of MedicinePublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps, chartsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781526122704
- 1526122707
- 9781526122728
- 1526122723
- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Ireland -- History
- Ireland
- Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919 -- history
- Ireland
- Épidémie de grippe espagnole, 1918-1919 -- Irlande -- Histoire
- Irlande
- MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Public Health
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- Ireland
- Influenza Epidemic (1918-1919)
- 1918-1919
- 614.5/1809041 23
- RC150.6.A2 I7363 2018eb
- WZ 70 GI6
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 27, 2018).
Intro; Front matter; Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; A 'mysterious malady' -- or a 'perfect storm'?; The flu: a news perspective; Counting the ill and the dead; 'Managing' the crisis; The doctors' view: medical puzzle, politics and search for cures; Hospitals and other institutions: coping with crises; Dying and surviving: eye witnesses; Influenza as a political tool; Epilogue: the long aftermath; Select bibliography; Index
A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic's effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life - culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life.
In English.
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