Foreword. Introduction 1. Globalized Complexity and the Microbial Traffic of New and Emerging Infectious Disease Threats Part 1. Reframing 1918: States, Pandemics, and Public Health 2. Barcelona's Influenza: A Comparison of the 1889-1890 and 1918 Autumn Outbreaks 3. Prevent or Heal, Laisser Faire or Coerce: The Public Health Politics of Influenza in France, 1918-1919 Uses and Misuses of the History of the 1918 Pandemic: Two Integrative Essays Part 2. Epidemiology, Virology, and 20th Century Epidemics 4. Are Influenzas in Southern China Byproducts of its Globalizing Historical Present? 5. Recent Influenza Epidemics and Implications for Contemporary Influenza Research 6. Influenza and the Remaking of Epidemiology, 1918-1960 7.Hong Kong Flu (1968) Revisited 40 Years Later Scientific Influenza Research and the Management of Uncertainty: Contemporary Perspectives Part 3. Governmental and Non-Governmental Institutions and the Politics of Epidemic Management 8. Mobility Restrictions, Isolation, and Quarantine: Historical Perspective on Contemporary Debates 9 .Influenza, Intellectual Property, and Knowledge Sharing: A Recent History 10. Biosecurity in Time of Avian Influenza: Vietnam Epidemics and Ethics: Comparative Insights and Critical Questions for Public Health Planning. Commentaries. Conclusion
Tamara Giles-Vernick is a Research Scientist in the Unit of Emergent Disease Epidemiology at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
Susan Craddock is Associate Professor at the Institute for Global Studies and the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota.
'A valuable interdisciplinary book about the response to pandemic
influenza which integrates insights from science, social science
and history. The authors illuminate the intersection between
science and policy and highlight key issues which cut across time,
geography and pathogen.'
Virginia Berridge, Professor of History, London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine 'Policymakers and practitioners should take
on board the many insights in this book before the next pandemic
begins.'
Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care, Queen Mary
University of London 'Influenza pandemics have been among the most
unpredictable and devastating natural disasters, but discussions
about them are usually confined to specialists. This book makes
fascinating reading for anyone who wants to understand the context
of pandemics but may have been deterred by the technical detail. It
will do much to introduce the field to a broader range of readers,
and to show why the collaboration of many fields - especially in
the social sciences -- is essential if we are going to understand
pandemics and deal with them appropriately.'
Stephen S. Morse, Director, PREDICT - USAID Emerging Pandemic
Threats (EPT) Program; Professor, Department of Epidemiology,
Columbia University
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