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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442686625
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082 0 4 _a614.5/18097109041
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHumphries, Mark Osborne
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Last Plague :
_bSpanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada /
_cMark Osborne Humphries.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource (348 p.) :
_b14 illustrations; 9 figures; 5 tables
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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520 _aThe 'Spanish' influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had been their standard practice since the cholera epidemics of 1832. But the 1918 flu was a different type of disease. In spite of the best efforts of both federal and local officials, up to fifty thousand Canadians died.In The Last Plague, Mark Osborne Humphries examines how federal epidemic disease management strategies developed before the First World War, arguing that the deadliest epidemic in Canadian history ultimately challenged traditional ideas about disease and public health governance. Using federal, provincial, and municipal archival sources, newspapers, and newly discovered military records - as well as original epidemiological studies - Humphries' sweeping national study situates the flu within a larger social, political, and military context for the first time. His provocative conclusion is that the 1918 flu crisis had important long-term consequences at the national level, ushering in the 'modern' era of public health in Canada.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Canada / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442686625
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