Paper Summary:

The paper outlines the main areas covered in the book, "The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19: New Perspectives" and discusses how this work raises both awareness and understanding of the flu pandemic of 1918 and 1919. The paper asserts that not only are the authors clearly qualified to edit this book, they presented their information effectively and persuasively, in a way that the lay reader could understand. The writer of this paper posits that this work is especially topical for the modern reader, and would recommend it to just about anyone even remotely interested in world history, health care, or pandemics.

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"The authors are clearly qualified to write (or in this case edit) this book - one is a historian and the other is a virologist. They incorporate the views and research of a variety of authors, and they use a wide variety of primary and secondary sources for their writing. They include over 100 pages of notes, including books, journal articles, white papers, and much more, indicating the depth of research and analysis that went into the book. Each of the sources adds depth and credence to the book, and the authors use them very successfully. They even include source information on documentaries, television shows, and newspapers, so they used just about every type of available media to prepare the essays in this book."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Phillips, Howard and David Killingray, eds. The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19: New Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2003.

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