Hasil untuk "physics.flu-dyn"

Ole Fröbert, Ida B. Pedersen, Astrid J. Hjelholt et al.

Floor Haalboom

At the time of the 1918–1919 ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic, influenza researchers did not just relate this disease to the human population, despite the focus of historians of medicine on its human aspects and meanings. In line with the use of historical reports of animals with influenza in present-day microbiological studies on influenza among different animal species, this article investigates understandings of animal influenza in the Netherlands during the 1918–1919 pandemic. The article adds to microbiological uses of the historical record by putting observations of animals with influenza in historical contexts, in particular the context of military dealings with influenza at the end of the First World War, and the social position of veterinary medicine. The case of the Dutch military horse veterinarian Emile Bemelmans, who argued that human and horse influenza were identical, illustrates that knowledge of these contexts is important to critically use historical sources reporting animals with influenza in present-day biological influenza research.

Peter Suber

Vítor Faustino, Flu data goes public, <em> Innovations Report </em> , July 23, 2007.

J van Schoor

Cynthia Gabbay

Abstract This chapter examines ‘the great oblivion’ of the ‘Spanish’ Flu pandemic through an inspection of a variety of Ibero-American literary and visual representations. The study diachronically conceptualises different semiotic phenomena from the last hundred years that are apparent in what could be considered an Ibero-American ‘archive’—understood as a conceptual cultural reservoir—of the 1918–19 pandemic. Given the elusive nature of the non-canonic literary and visual artefacts, which appear as ‘vestiges’ or ‘cinders’ of forgotten cultural histories, the study focuses on the construction of the memory of the ‘Spanish’ Flu pandemic as an alternation of remembrance and oblivion, and it traces cultural ‘lethomechanisms’ responsible for transmitting memory through manifestations of forgetfulness. A typology of the phenomena is offered through consideration of examples of denial, rejection and silencing of the event, including cultural expressions of ‘pre-forgetting’, collateral representation and textual resignification. These modes of representation have produced an inverted memorable imprint that projects a particular epistemology of the epidemic experience. The chapter concludes that, given the absence of intertextual relations between the different cultural sources, it is not possible to identify a canonical Ibero-American tradition of representations of the ‘Spanish’ Flu pandemic.

Prithy Adhikary

Mark Honigsbaum

Nourah Alhennawi, Vinny Khunger

Trent Yarwood

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