Mark Osborne Humphries

The Last Plague

Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 323
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781442610446
• ISBN-10: 1442610441
• Artikelnr.: 29948194

Autorenporträt

Mark Osborne Humphries is the Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience, Director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS), and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
I. Introduction
II. Establishing the Grand Watch: Epidemics and Public Health, 1832-1883
III. 'Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business': Sanitary Science, Social
Reform, and Mentalities of Public Health, 1867-1914
IV. A Pandemic Prelude: The 1889-90 Influenza Pandemic in Canada
V. Happily Rare of Complications: The Flu's First Wave in Canada and the
Official Response
VI. A Dark and Invisible Fog Descends: The Second Wave of Flu and the
Federal Response
VII. 'A Terrible Fall for Preventative Medicine': Provincial and Municipal
Responses to the Second Wave of Flu
VIII. The Trail of Infected Armies: War, the Flu, and the Popular Response
IX. 'The Nation's Duty': Creating a Federal Department of Health
X. 'Success is somewhere Around the Corner': The Changing Federal Role in
Public Health
XI. Conclusion
XII. Bibliography of Sources Consulted