"Destroyer and teacher": Managing the masses during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic

Public Health Reports

Volumn 125, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages 48-62

  Tomes, Nancy ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COUGHING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SANITATION; SCHOOL; SNEEZING; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SPANISH INFLUENZA; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WAR; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY; HYGIENE; INFLUENZA; SOCIAL MARKETING;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; SOCIAL MARKETING; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77954670644     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00333549101250s308     Document Type: Review

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