{"product_id":"9780415636841","title":"The Flu Epidemic of 1918 : America's Experience in the Global Health Crisis (Critical Moments in American History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1918, a devastating world-wide influenza epidemic hit the United States. Killing over 600,000 Americans and causing the national death rate to jump 30% in a single year, the outbreak obstructed the country''s participation in World War I and imposed terrible challenges on communities across the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis epidemic provides an ideal lens for understanding the history of infectious disease in the United States. \u003ci\u003eThe Flu Epidemic of 1918 \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the impact of the outbreak on health, medicine, government, and individual people''s lives, and also explores the puzzle of Americans'' decades-long silence about the experience once it was over. In a concise narrative bolstered by primary sources including newspaper articles, eye-witness accounts, and government reports, Sandra Opdycke provides undergraduates with an unforgettable introduction to the 1918 epidemic and its after-effects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48685756350699,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":457.78,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780415636841-1.jpg?v=1781622104","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780415636841","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}