One Hundred Years of Pandemic Influenza

Michael Bresalier is Lecturer in the Department of History at Swansea University, United Kingdom

Introduction: The Afterlives of the Great Pandemic (Michael Bresalier) Part One: Origins 1. Genesis and spread of "Spanish Influenza": From France to the USA, 1916-1918 (John Oxford) 2. Paths of Infection: The First World War and the Origins of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Mark Humphries) Part Two: Past and Present 3. Parisian Press and the "Spanish Flu" (Avner Bar-Hen and Patrick Zylberman) 4. The Flu Strikes Back: Changing temporalities between the "Russian" and "Spanish" Influenza Epidemics in France, 1889-1919 (Frédéric Vagneron) 5. Jim Crow and Influenza: The pandemic and racial segregation in rural South Texas, 1918-1919 (James E. Higgins) Part Three: Legacies 6. Forgetting and Remembering: The Human Legacy of the 1918 Pandemic in the United States (Nancy Bristow) 7. Recollecting Influenza: Form, remembrance, and interpretation in Canada’s pandemic (Esyllt Jones) 8. Epidemic encephalitis, an inversion of influenza (Kenton Kroker) 9. ): From Bacteriology to Virology: Influenza Vaccination in Germany, 1918-1960 (Wilfried Witte) Part Four: Surveillance and Control 10. An Elusive Foe: The U.S. Army’s Pursuit of Influenza from the 1920s to the 1970s (Catol R. Byerly) 11. Creating the World Influenza Surveillance System: Surveillance with a Purpose (George Dehner) 12. The 1957 Influenza Pandemic and Biological Warfare Planning: An Unexplored Relationship (Donald H. Avery) 13. Prevention and Preparedness: Anthropological perspectives on the globalization of influenza (Meike Wolf) Part Five: Zoonotic connections 14. Making the human-animal connection: Swine ‘flu in the Netherlands, 1918-1945 (Floor Haalboom) 15. Making Influenza Zoonotic: Veterinary science, Asian pandemics, and the World Health Organization, 1956-1976 (Michael Bresalier) 16. How Hong Kong Became a Sentinel for Avian Flu (Frédéric Keck) 17. Historical ecologies of avian influenza: Mass poultry vaccination and the problem of re-emerging H5N1 viruses in China, 1997-2015 (Lyle Fearnley) Part Six: Pandemic Politics 18. Crises that didn’t come: Responses to pandemic influenza threats: USA 1976, France 2009 (François Buton and Frédéric Pierru) 19. False alarms and uncertain risks: reflections on "the pandemic that never was (Mark Honigsbaum) 20. The virus sharing controversy: Global health diplomacy as social drama (Rachel Irwin and Richard Smith) 21. WHO vaccine and path dependency (Sudeepa Abeysinghe) Reflections (Susan Craddock and Virginia Berridge)