Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The Plague

Over the last few years at least 4 new titles have been published on the history of the 1918 flu pandemic. If you are interested in the history and lessons to be learned you might want to check out the following titles that we have purchased.

Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic: a dark epilogue. Niall Johnson, 2006

Mass Mediated Disease: a case study analysis of three flu pandemics and public health policy.
Debr Lanham, 2006

Plagues & Poxes: the impact of human history on epidemic disease. Alfred Bollet, 2004

Flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it. Gina Kolata, 1999.

To see if a title is available go to ALBERT:library catalog http://library.aecom.yu.edu/ on our home page. Typing in author or title will bring up our record.with the call no. and availability.