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dc.contributor.author | Herring, D. Ann | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Carraher, Sally | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lim, Marie K. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Mrmak, Melissa | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hancock, Kelly | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Maris, Natasha K. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Thompson, Samantha | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Martel, Kelly A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Schafer, Devan | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Emes, Lisa | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Colasanti, Vanessa | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Spry, Melinda | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Montero, Marta | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Murray, Frances | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Toth, Gabrielle S. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Byford, Sarah K. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Steenhoek, Meghan | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Rubignoni, Ema | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hartwick, Courtney A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Alonso, Jennifer | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Da, Silva Stephanie | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Monnaie, Jessica | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T17:28:11Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T17:28:11Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2012-02-07 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | anthro_coll/5 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 1004 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 2500862 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/14366 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>While many readers will be familiar with the well known “Spanish Influenza”, a<br />term that refers to the iconic 1918 influenza pandemic, its predecessor, the<br />Russian Influenza – a pandemic that occurred in several waves during the late<br />nineteenth century (1889-94) – seems to have been lost from public memory. Yet,<br />in a mere four months it spread rapidly around a world that was becoming<br />increasingly interconnected by ships and railways (Valleron <em>et al</em>. 2010).<br />The details of the pandemic’s progress and effects were extensively reported in<br />newspapers and medical periodicals. The people of Hamilton were well aware of<br />its movements long before it reached the city. As an illness that seemed to<br />manifest itself simultaneously in mild and severe forms, doctors of the period<br />were at a loss to explain what was causing such widespread and variable suffering<br />(Smith 1995:55). This was a time when medical authorities debated whether<br />disease was caused by miasma – noxious odours and poisonous gases – or by<br />invisible bacteria that could only be seen with a microscope; a time in which the<br />public was essentially left to its own devices to treat the illness popularly known<br />as “la grippe”.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Russian Influenza | en_US |
dc.subject | pandemic | en_US |
dc.subject | epidemic | en_US |
dc.subject | flu | en_US |
dc.subject | Hamilton | en_US |
dc.subject | nineteenth century | en_US |
dc.subject | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.subject | Biological and Physical Anthropology | en_US |
dc.subject | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.title | Miasma To Microscopes: The Russian Influenza Pandemic in Hamilton | en_US |
dc.type | book | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Anthropology Publications |
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