The last plague : Spanish influenza and the politics of public health in Canada
2013
Book
"The 'Spanish' influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had been their standard practice since the cholera epidemics of 1832. But the 1918 flu was a different type of disease. In spite of the best efforts of both federal and local officials, up to fifty thousand Canadians died.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781442641112
- 9781442610446
- 1442641118
- 1442610441
Description: xii, 323 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-306) and index.
Contents:
- I. Introduction
- II. Establishing the Grand Watch: Epidemics and Public Health, 1832-1883
- III. 'Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business': Sanitary Science, Social Reform, and Mentalities of Public Health, 1867-1914
- IV. A Pandemic Prelude: The 1889-90 Influenza Pandemic in Canada
- V. Happily Rare of Complications: The Flu's First Wave in Canada and the Official Response
- VI. A Dark and Invisible Fog Descends: The Second Wave of Flu and the Federal Response
- VII. 'A Terrible Fall for Preventative Medicine': Provincial and Municipal Responses to the Second Wave of Flu
- VIII. The Trail of Infected Armies: War, the Flu, and the Popular Response
- IX. 'The Nation's Duty': Creating a Federal Department of Health
- X. 'Success is somewhere Around the Corner': The Changing Federal Role in Public Health
- XI. Conclusion
- XII. Bibliography of Sources Consulted.
LCCN: 2013427180
Control Number: 925666
Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2013.Subjects:
- Disease management -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
- Épidémie de grippe espagnole, 1918-1919 -- Aspect social -- Canada.
- Épidémie de grippe espagnole, 1918-1919 -- Canada -- Histoire.
- Gestion thérapeutique -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Government Regulation -- history -- Canada.
- Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Services médicaux et sanitaires -- Canada.
- Health Policy -- history -- Canada.
- History, 20th Century -- Canada.
- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Canada -- History.
- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Social aspects -- Canada.
- Influenza, Human -- history -- Canada.
- Medical policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
- Pandemics -- history -- Canada.
- Politique sanitaire -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Public health -- Political aspects -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
- Santé publique -- Aspect politique -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Health aspects -- Canada.