Influenza and Inequality
Title | Influenza and Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia J. Fanning |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Discrimination |
ISBN | 9781558498112 |
A dramatic account of the deadly spread of influenza through a Massachusetts town in 1918.
Influenza and Inequality
Title | Influenza and Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Discrimination |
ISBN | 9781613760222 |
Pandemics, Economics and Inequality
Title | Pandemics, Economics and Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Sergi Basco |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 133 |
Release | 2022-06-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 303105668X |
This Pivot book provides a framework for understanding the economic and potentially unequal effects of pandemics, focusing closely on the Spanish Flu. It provides an in-depth analysis of the different effects of the Spanish Flu on the economy from unequal mortality to wages, housing and output. There is a general review of the literature but an important feature of this book is that it explains results using data from Spain, an ideal country to perform this exercise, as its mortality data is not affected by the First World War. Spain was also developed enough to have reliable data, but it was very heterogeneous across regions which will allow a comparison of more and less developed regions. No other book exists that offers a comprehensive and data-driven view of the effects of the Spanish Flu, which is the closest pandemic example to Covid-19. With the outbreak of Covid-19 increasing the need to learn about the economic effects of pandemics, this book will be of interest to academics and students of economic history, macroeconomics (economic crises) and economic development, as well being accessible for the general reader.
Epidemic Encounters
Title | Epidemic Encounters PDF eBook |
Author | Magda Fahrni |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0774822155 |
Health crises such as the SARS epidemic and H1N1 have rekindled interest among historians, medical authorities, and government officials in the 1918 influenza pandemic, a crisis that swept the globe in the wake of the First World War and killed approximately 50 million people. Epidemic Encounters zeroes in on Canada, where one-third of the population took ill and fifty-five thousand people died, to consider the various ways in which this country was affected by the pandemic. How did military and medical authorities, health care workers, and ordinary citizens respond? What role did social inequalities play in determining who survived? To answer these questions as they pertained to both local and national contexts, the contributors explore a number of key themes and topics, including the experiences of nurses and Aboriginal peoples, public letter writing in Montreal, the place of the epidemic within industrial modernity, and the relationship between mourning and interwar spiritualism. In the process, they offer new insights into medical history’s usefulness in the struggle against epidemic disease.
The Effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Income Inequality
Title | The Effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Income Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Sergio Galletta |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | |
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In this paper, we estimate the effect of the 1918 Influenza pandemic on income inequality in Italian municipalities. Our identification strategy exploits the exogenous diffusion of influenza across municipalities due to the presence of infected soldiers on leave from World War I operations at the peak of the pandemic. Our measures of income inequality come from newly digitized historical administrative records on Italian taxpayer incomes. We show that in the short-/medium-run (i.e., after five years), income inequality is higher in Italian municipalities more afflicted by the pandemic. The effect is mostly explained by a reduction in the share of income held by poorer people. Finally, we provide initial evidence that these differences in income inequality persist even after a century.
The Great Influenza
Title | The Great Influenza PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Barry |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 580 |
Release | 2005-10-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780143036494 |
#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, 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.
Infections and Inequalities
Title | Infections and Inequalities PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Farmer |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2001-02-23 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780520229136 |
Annotation A report from the front lines of the war against the most deadly epidemics of our times, by a physician-anthropolpgist who has for over 15 years sought to serve the poor of rural Haiti and other settings in the Americas.