Influenza and public health : learning from past pandemics / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and Susan Craddock ; with Jennifer Gunn.

London : Earthscan, 2010.

xviii, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Globalized complexity and the microbial traffic of new and emerging infectious disease threats / Harris Ali -- Barcelona's influenza : a comparison of the 1889-1890 and 1918 autumn outbreaks / Esteban Rodriguez-Ocaña -- Prevent or heal, laisser faire or coerce : the public health politics of influenza in France, 1918-1919 / Anne Rasmussen. Influenza epidemics and the politics of historical analogy / Patrick Zylberman. Influenza and historians : a difficult past / Ilana Löwy -- Are influenzas in southern China byproducts of its globalizing historical present? / Robert G. Wallace and Luke Bergmann -- Recent influenza epidemics and implications for contemporary influenza research / Sylvie van der Werf -- Influenza and the remaking of epidemiology, 1918-1960 / John Eyler -- Hong Kong flu (1968) revisited 40 years later / Claude Hannoun with Susan Craddock. Influenza histories and the coexistence of old and new / Frédéric Keck -- Mobility restrictions, isolation, and quarantine : historical perspective on contemporary debates / Tamara Giles-Vernick, Susan Craddock, and Jennifer Gunn -- Influenza, intellectual property, and knowledge sharing / Maurice Cassier -- Biosecurity in the time of avian influenza, Vietnam / Annick Guenel and Sylvia Klingberg. Ethics and epidemics : Reflections on the contemporary stakes of transparency and equity / Marc Guerrier.

Includes bibliographical references and index.