001480397 000__ 04756nam\a22007935i\4500 001480397 001__ 1480397 001480397 003__ DE-B1597 001480397 005__ 20231026035139.0 001480397 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480397 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480397 008__ 230918t20052005nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480397 020__ $$a9781479867059 001480397 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9781479867059.001.0001$$2doi 001480397 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547720 001480397 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480397 0410_ $$aeng 001480397 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001480397 050_4 $$aRC150.4$$b.B946 2005 001480397 072_7 $$aHIS036060$$2bisacsh 001480397 08204 $$a614.5/18/09041$$222 001480397 1001_ $$aByerly, Carol R, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001480397 24510 $$aFever of War :$$bThe Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I /$$cCarol R Byerly. 001480397 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2005] 001480397 264_4 $$c©2005 001480397 300__ $$a1 online resource 001480397 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480397 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480397 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480397 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480397 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tFigures -- $$tAbbreviations -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tPrologue -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Medical Heroes -- $$t2. Building a Healthy Army -- $$t3. Worst-Case Scenario -- $$t4 .Fighting Germs and Germans -- $$t5. Postmortem -- $$t6. "Except for the Flu . . ." -- $$tConclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tSelect Bibliography -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001480397 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480397 520__ $$aThe influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare.The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers' confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory. 001480397 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001480397 546__ $$aIn English. 001480397 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001480397 650_0 $$aInfluenza Epidemic, 1918-1919$$zEurope. 001480397 650_0 $$aWorld War, 1914-1918$$xHealth aspects. 001480397 650_4 $$aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century$$2sh. 001480397 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001480397 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tNew York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$z9783110706444 001480397 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780814799239 001480397 852__ $$bebk 001480397 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479867059$$zOnline Access 001480397 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1480397$$pGLOBAL_SET 001480397 912__ $$a978-3-11-070644-4 New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001480397 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001480397 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001480397 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001480397 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001480397 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001480397 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001480397 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001480397 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001480397 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001480397 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001480397 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001480397 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001480397 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001480397 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001480397 980__ $$aBIB 001480397 980__ $$aEBOOK 001480397 982__ $$aEbook 001480397 983__ $$aOnline