"Waste in a great enterprise": Influenza, modernism, and one of ours

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-101

  Doležal, Joshua ^a  

^a Central College   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LITERATURE; PUBLIC FIGURE; UNITED STATES;

FAMOUS PERSONS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LITERATURE, MODERN; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77953631177     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lm.0.0036     Document Type: Review

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