Download Readings : A Selection

Readings:
A Selection
W . I. B. Beveridge, Influenza : The June Osborn (editor), Influenza in
America 1918-1976, Prodist, New
Last Great Plague, Heinemann, LonYork, 1977 .
don, 1977 .
Based on a symposium concernConcise, non-technical account of
ing the history, science and polithe epidemic behavior of influtics of influenza held at a meetenza .
ing of the American Association
Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., Epidemic and
for the History of Medicine in
Peace, 1918, Greenwood Press,
May 1977 .
Westport, Connecticut, 1976 .
Comprehensive, non-technical ac- Philip Selby (editor), Influenza : Virus,
Vaccine and Strategy, Academic
count of the great influenza panPress, London, 1976 .
demic of 1918-19 .
Papers presented at a conference
Comptroller General of the United
on pandemic influenza in JanuStates, The Swine Flu Program : An
ary 1976 ; the state of expert
Unprecedented Venture in Preventhinking just prior to isolation of
tive Medicine, Report to the Conswine flu in New Jersey .
gress, June 27, 1977 .
Reviews planning and operation Sir Charles H. Stuart-Harris and Geoffrey C. Schild, Influenza: The Viof the swine flu program and
ruses and the Disease, Publishing
offers recommendations.
Sciences Group, Littleton, Mass-The Journal of Infectious Diseases,
chusetts, 1976.
Volume 136, Supplement, DecemTechnical but well written sumber 1977.
mary of knowledge in the field .
Reports presented at a symposium sponsored by NIAID, BoB United States Senate, Hearings, Subcommittee on Health, Committee on
and CDC in January 1977 . IntroLabor and Public Welfare, Ninetyductory papers contain detailed
fourth Congress, Second Session,
accounts of investigations surApril 1 and August 5, 1976 .
rounding identification of swine
flu in New Jersey ; others deal
Contemporary introduction to the
with clinical studies of swine inswine flu program's logic and influenza vaccine.
tentions . The August hearing
deals with liability .
Edwin D. Kilbourne (editor), The
Influenza Viruses and Influenza, House of Representatives, SuppleAcademic Press, New York, 1975 .
mental Hearings, Subcommittee on
Excellent, authoritative textbook.
Health and the Environment, Com171
mittee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce, Ninety-fourth Congress,
Second Session, Serial No . 94-113,
June 28, July 20, 23 and September 13, 1976 .
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Wide-ranging discussion of the
swine flu program; emphasizes liability issues . Detail on positions
of drug and insurance firms as
well as public officials . .