Epidemic Encounters

Magda Fahrni is an associate professor in the Department of History at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Esyllt W. Jones is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba. Contributors: Francis Dubois, Denis Goulet, D. Ann Herring, Mark Osborne Humphries, Mary-Ellen Kelm, Ellen Korol, Heather MacDougall, Linda Quiney, Karen Slonim, and Jean-Pierre Thouez.

Introduction / Magda Fahrni and Esyllt Jones Part 1: Public Responses to the Influenza Pandemic in Canada 1 The Limits of Necessity: Public Health, Dissent, and the War Effort during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic / Mark Osborne Humphries 2 "Rendering Valuable Service": The Politics of Nursing during the 1918-19 Influenza Crisis / Linda Quiney 3 "Respectfully Submitted": Citizens and Public Letter Writing during Montreal's Influenza Epidemic, 1918-20 / Magda Fahrni Part 2: Who Contracted Influenza and Why? 4 The North-South Divide: Social Inequality and Mortality from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Hamilton, Ontario / D. Ann Herring and Ellen Korol 5 Beyond Biology: Understanding the Social Impact of Infectious Disease in Two Aboriginal Communities / Karen Slonim 6 A Geographical Analysis of the Spread of Spanish Influenza in Quebec, 1918-20 / Francis Dubois, Jean-Pierre Thouez, and Denis Goulet Part 3: Influenza and the Limits of Modernity 7 Flu Stories: Engaging with Disease, Death, and Modernity in British Columbia, 1918-19 / Mary-Ellen Kelm 8 Spectral Influenza: Winnipeg's Hamilton Family, Interwar Spiritualism, and Pandemic Disease / Esyllt Jones Part 4: Influenza and Public Health in the Contemporary Context 9 Toronto's Health Department in Action: Influenza in 1918 and SARS in 2003 / Heather MacDougall Conclusion / Esyllt Jones and Magda Fahrni Selected Bibliography Contributors Index