Modern flu : British medical science and the viralisation of influenza, 1890-1950 / Michael Bresalier.
Bresalier, Michael, author.
2023
RA644.I6
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Title Modern flu : British medical science and the viralisation of influenza, 1890-1950 / Michael Bresalier.
Author Bresalier, Michael, author.
ISBN 9781137339546 (electronic bk.)
1137339543 (electronic bk.)
1137339535
9781137339539
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-33954-6
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 458 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-33954-6 doi
Call Number RA644.I6
Dewey Decimal Classification 614.5/1809041
Summary Ninety years after the discovery of human influenza virus, Modern Flu traces the history of this breakthrough and its implications for understanding and controlling influenza ever since. Examining how influenza came to be defined as a viral disease in the first half of the twentieth century, it argues that influenzas viral identity did not suddenly appear with the discovery of the first human influenza virus in 1933. Instead, it was rooted in the development of medical virus research and virological ways of knowing that grew out of a half-century of changes and innovations in medical science that were shaped through two influenza pandemics, two world wars, and by state-sponsored programs to scientifically modernise British medicine. A series of transformations, in which virological ideas and practices were aligned with and incorporated into medicine and public health, underpinned the viralisation of influenza in the 1930s and 1940s. Collaboration, conflict and exchange between researchers, medical professionals and governmental bodies lay at the heart of this process. This book is a history of how virus researchers, clinicians, and epidemiologists, medical scientific and public health bodies, and institutions, and philanthropies in Britain, the USA and beyond, forged a new medical consensus on the identity and nature of influenza. Shedding new light on the modern history of influenza, this book is a timely account of how ways of knowing and controlling this intractable epidemic disease became viral. Michael Bresalier is Lecturer in the History of Medicine and co-director of the Medical Humanities Research Centre at Swansea University, in the UK.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history.
Available in Other Form MODERN FLU.
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Chapter 1. Introduction. Historicising Flu: Viral Identities of Influenza
Chapter 2. Naming Flu: Classification and its Conflicts
Chapter 3. Modernising Flu: Re-Aligning Medical Knowledge of the Most Protean Disease
Chapter 4. Fighting Flu: Military Pathology and the 1918-19 Pandemic
Chapter 5. Mobilising Flu: The Pandemic and the Genesis of British Medical Virus Research
Chapter 6. Modelling Flu: Dog Distemper and the Promise of Virus Research
Chapter 7. Viralising Flu: Towards a New Medical Consensus
Chapter 8. Globalising Flu: Systems of Surveillance and Vaccination
Chapter 9. Conclusion: The Most Protean Disease
Chapter 10. CODA: Influenza and Covid-19 .

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