American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds Of The 1918 Influenza Epidemic -- Nancy Bristow

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds Of The 1918 Influenza Epidemic Author: Nancy Bristow Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 9, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: Between the years 1918 and 1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past. American Pandemic offers a much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the influenza outbreak. It sheds light on the social and cultural history of Americans during the pandemic, uncovering both the causes of the nation's public amnesia and the depth of the quiet remembering that endured. Focused on the primary players in this drama—patients and their families, friends, and community, public health experts, and health care professionals—historian Nancy K. Bristow draws on multiple perspectives to highlight the complex interplay between social identity, cultural norms, memory, and the epidemic. Bristow has combed a wealth of primary sources, including letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, novels, newspapers, magazines, and government documents. She shows that though the pandemic caused massive disruption in the most basic patterns of American life, influenza did not create long-term social or cultural change, serving instead to reinforce the status quo and the differences and disparities that defined American life.