Overwhelming the medium: Fiction and the trauma of pandemic influenza in 1918

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-81

  Belling, Catherine ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIC; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LITERATURE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LITERATURE, MODERN; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953648153     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lm.0.0046     Document Type: Review

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