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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 sheds new light on what the World Health Organization described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded" by situating the Iberian Peninsula as the key point of connection, both epidemiologically and discursively, between Europe and the Americas. The essays in this volume elucidate specific aspects of the pandemic that have received minimal attention until now, including social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to the pandemic and its relationship with civilian medicine, all in the context of World War I. As the authors point out, however, the experiences of 1918-...

Global Catastrophic Risks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 577

Global Catastrophic Risks

A Global Catastrophic Risk is one that has the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global scale. This book focuses on such risks arising from natural catastrophes (Earth-based or beyond), nuclear war, terrorism, biological weapons, totalitarianism, advanced nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and social collapse.

Influenza
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Influenza

My lifetime encompasses the postwar subsidence in the early 1920s of the greatest influenza pandemic in history, direct encounters with FM1 virus at Fort Mon mouth in 1947, the care of influenza patients in the 1950s, the pursuit of the in fluenza virus through the modern pandemics of 1957 and 1968, and a present in which the genes of the virus have dissembled in the DNA of vaccinia virus and Escherichia coli through the wand of "high tech. " If my corpus could be fossilized for archival and archaeological purposes, it would be found to contain immune cells branded with the imprint of the "swine" influenza virus of post-1918 and brain cells no less imprinted with memories of the abortive ret...

Federal advisory committees
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1448

Federal advisory committees

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 197?
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Cornellian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 490

The Cornellian

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1941
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Current Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1000

Current Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1969
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 712

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1969
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  • Publisher: Unknown

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Genetically Altered Viruses and the Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384