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| Title | : | The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History |
| Author | : | John M. Barry |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Revised Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 546 pages |
| Published | : | October 4th 2005 by Penguin Books (first published February 9th 2004) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Science. Health. Medicine. Medical |
John M. Barry
Paperback | Pages: 546 pages Rating: 3.97 | 20503 Users | 1982 Reviews
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At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. John M. Barry has written a new afterword for this edition that brings us up to speed on the terrible threat of the avian flu and suggest ways in which we might head off another flu pandemic.
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| Original Title: | The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History |
| ISBN: | 0143036491 (ISBN13: 9780143036494) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.97 From 20503 Users | 1982 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Joe wrote: "Great review, Mario. I got a kick out of your ' techno optimist ' reference. According to the computer commercials on TV in the US, allThe Great Influenza by John Barry is an important book that is equal part history and equal part science discussing the 1918 Flu. The book is written almost exclusively about the American impacts towards and from the flu. The book spends more than half the pages discussing immunologists and their groundbreaking work on infectious diseases, especially influenza and pneumonia. As a result it took Barry a few hundred pages to hit the meat of the book.We learn that the deadly strain of 1918
Despite the writing being so poor(almost seemed like a first draft), this one hits home. 1920 and 2020. New century, new pandemic. We always thought that things cant get much worse, but reality surprises us. The researches, methods that was done back then may seem medieval , but it was what they had then. Where are we with all this cutting edge technologies in 2020? I live in a country where students choose to read life science if they dont get into other disciplines(not talking about
Great review, Mario. I got a kick out of your ' techno optimist ' reference. According to the computer commercials on TV in the US, all your business
It was a book, only a book.I have to keep telling myself this because even though author John M. Barry apparently felt like he was writing the tome to end all tomes about this chapter in world history including the hideous phrase, "It was influenza, just influenza" over and over and over again in the end, what he created was a terrific 200-page story of the world's deadliest pandemic wrapped in 250 pages of overwritten irrelevance.Barry spent seven years working on this book, and it shows. By
Beyond five stars. How many books are entertaining, important, engaging and edifying? I can only think of one, this one. I thought this was going to read like a thriller by Michael Crichton or Dan Brown following a plucky single doctor who fights hard for his patients, makes a breakthrough, and saves the day. That's not this book because that's definitely not what happened. The book starts off with a history of medicine. I had a vague idea about this beginning with Hypocrites and then jumping
Getting a little boring, so I'm taking a break from it. I think I expected a social history (how everyday people dealt with the flu, how it affected communities, etc.), and instead it's a very detailed history of medicine at the time (and well, well before the time of the flu!). I think I made it through a good 1/4 to 1/3 of the book (or more) before the Spanish flu began to get mentioned. The focus is on the medicine and doctors (individuals and as a profession - you get the whole history of
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