Article ID: CBB281075447

H1N1 in the ‘A1 Empire’: Pandemic Influenza, Military Medicine, and the British Transition from War to Peace, 1918–1920 (2020)

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The article reexamines the history of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic to better place it in its war-time context. Using Britain as a case study, the essay examines how British military medicine took a leading role in studying and developing a (still largely ineffective) public health response to the epidemic, whereas domestic public health leaders did almost nothing to stem the spread of the pandemic due to the impact measures such as quarantine would have had on the war effort. The article ends by briefly considering how the pandemic affected efforts to restore Britain to ‘normalcy’ during the immediate post-war recovery. In so doing, this essay further argues how it is essential to consider the deep connections between the Great War and the influenza pandemic not simply as concurrent or consecutive crises, but more deeply intertwined.

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Authors & Contributors
Honigsbaum, Mark
Bresalier, Michael
Goffman, Laura F.
M. Kemal Temel
Tucker, Judith E.
Schlabach, Elizabeth
Concepts
Influenza
Public health
Pandemics
Medicine and society
Medicine
Infectious diseases
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
United States
India
Persian Gulf
Bahrain
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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