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Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20

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Health crises such as the SARS epidemic and H1N1 have rekindled interest in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which swept the globe in the wake of the First World War and killed approximately 50 million people. Now more than ever, medical, public health, and government officials want to the past to lend a hand prepare for future emergencies.

Epidemic Encounters zeroes in on Canada, where one-third of the population took in poor health and fifty-five thousand people died, to believe the more than a few ways in which this country used to be suffering from the pandemic. How did military and medical authorities, health care workers, and peculiar citizens respond? What role did social inequalities play in determining who survived? To reply to these questions as they pertained to both local and national contexts, the contributors explore quite a few key themes and topics, including the experiences of nurses and Aboriginal peoples, public letter writing in Montreal, the place of the epidemic within industrial modernity, and the relationship between mourning and interwar spiritualism.

The Canadian experience brings to light the complex ways that biology, science, society, and culture intersect in a globalizing world and offers new insight into medical history’s usefulness in the struggle against epidemic disease.

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