Table of Contents

Introduction: Emerging Perspectives of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic 1918-19
The Great Evolutionary Potential of Viruses: The 1918 Flu as a Paradigm of Disease Emergence
Spanish Flu in Brazil: Searching for Causes during the Epidemic Horror
Ricardo Jorge and the Construction of a Medico-Sanitary Public Discourse: Portugal and International Scientific Networks
And to Make Things Worse, the Flu: The Spanish Influenza in a Revolutionary Portugal
Between the Pandemic and World War I: The 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in the Spanish Army, through the Eyes of the Press
The Reign of the Spanish Flu: Impact and Responses to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Minas Gerais, Brazil
The Spanish Flu in Bahia, Brazil: Prophylaxis and Healing Practices
A Collaborative Experience: The Mutual Benefit Societies' Responses to the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Pamplona, Spain
A Tale of Two Spains: Narrating the Nation during the 1918-19 Influenza Epidemic
The Spanish Flu in Argentina: An Alarming Hostage
Epidemic Disease, Local Government, and Social Control: The Example of the City of Alicante, Spain
The Gendered Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Influenza in Montreal, Canada, 1918-20
Remembering and Reconstructing: Fictions of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Reviews

Using numerous primary sources, the writers have produced firsthand accounts of the outbreak in regions of the West largely neglected in other histories. In addition to providing descriptions of the virus and mechanisms of its variation, the writers emphasize social and political conditions that played significant roles in the outbreak. Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 examines the developments of a landmark epidemic in places -- such as provincial Spain -- that have received insufficient attention from researchers. An original and valuable study that contributes to medical historiography and to the contemporary study of medicine.
*Marcos Cueto, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro*