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The 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.

World War, 1914-1918 --- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919 --- Spanish Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Spanish Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Epidemics --- Health aspects. --- United States. --- U.S. Army --- US Army --- Medical care --- History.

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Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919. --- Equality --- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Economic aspects. --- History. --- Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919 --- Spanish Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Spanish Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Epidemics --- Equality Economic aspects --- Economic aspects

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The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population. It is the world's greatest killing influenza pandemic, and is used as a worst case scenario for emerging infectious disease epidemics like the corona virus COVID-19. It decimated families, silenced cities and towns as it passed through, stilled commerce, closed schools and public buildings and put normal life on hold. Sometimes it killed several members of the same family. Like COVID-19 there was no preventative vaccine for the virus, and many died from secondary bacterial pneumonia in this pre-antibiotic era. In this work, Ida Milne tells how it impacted on Ireland, during a time of war and revolution. But the stories she tells of the harrowing impact on families, and of medicine's desperate search to heal the ill, could apply to any other place in the world at the time. --

Influenza --- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919 --- Spanish Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Spanish Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Epidemics --- Influenza Epidemic (1918-1919) --- Ireland. --- Irish Free State --- Medicine. --- Medicine: general issues. --- History of medicine. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- History. --- history. --- Airlann --- Airurando --- Éire --- Irish Republic --- Irland --- Irlanda --- Irlande --- Irlanti --- Írország --- Poblacht na hÉireann --- Republic of Ireland

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While there has been an abundance of scientific works on the COVID-19 crisis, there has been relatively little research to date from the humanities. This striking new book seeks to address the immediacy of COVID-19 by focusing on the implications of the virus in a wider interdisciplinary context-through the lens of the law, history, ethics, technology, economics, and gender studies. From Europe to South America, Asia, and beyond, Law, Humanities and the Covid Crisis sets out a framework for understanding the COVID-19 virus beyond its epidemiological constraints, asking us to question the very definition of what it means to be human. Researchers from around the world offer their critical reflections on the past, present, and future of this period of socio-cultural upheaval and the tremendous suffering that has laid bare fundamental imbalances in our society. Featuring essays on public welfare versus private interest, violence against women, mask compliance, conspiracy theories, and national security laws, this book is a significant contribution to understanding our new "post-COVID" landscape, and the future yet to come.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Law and the humanities. --- disaster politics --- education and COVID-19 --- civil unrest --- Spanish Flu --- coronavirus --- masks --- protest --- pandemic --- labour --- COVID-19 --- Jair Bolsonaro --- women and COVID-19 --- domestic violence --- work ethics --- public health --- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023. --- Law and the humanities.

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The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Drawing on the latest insights from a wide variety of disciplines, Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan provide practical guidance for how governments, businesses, and individuals can better manage globalization and risk.Goldin and Mariathasan demonstrate that systemic risk issues are now endemic everywhere-in supply chains, pandemics, infrastructure, ecology and climate change, economics, and politics. Unless we address these concerns, they will lead to greater protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism, and, inevitably, deglobalization, rising inequality, conflict, and slower growth.The Butterfly Defect shows that mitigating uncertainty and risk in an interconnected world is an essential task for our future.

Globalization. --- Crisis management. --- Risk management. --- Contagion. --- Glass-Steagall Act. --- H5N1. --- HIV/AIDS. --- Hurricane Sandy. --- Katrina. --- SARS. --- Spanish flu. --- West Nile Virus. --- air transportation connectivity. --- bird flu. --- blackouts. --- butterfly effect. --- cascades. --- cholera. --- climate change. --- computer viruses. --- cyber attacks. --- disease control. --- earthquakes. --- ecological risks. --- economic crises. --- economic meltdown. --- financial crisis. --- global catastrophe. --- global connectivity. --- global infrastructure. --- global virus. --- globalism. --- great recession. --- greenhouse gas emissions. --- housing bubbles. --- hurricanes. --- infectious disease. --- influenza. --- infrastucture. --- isolationism. --- nationalism. --- natural disasters. --- network effects. --- pandemic management. --- pandemic. --- protectionism. --- quarantines. --- recession. --- risk management. --- super spreaders. --- supply bottleneck. --- supply chains. --- swine flu. --- systemic collapse. --- systemic shocks. --- terrorism. --- tsunamis. --- volcanic eruptions.