The Great Influenza

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John M. Barry is an American author and historian, perhaps best known for his books on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 the influenza pandemic of 1918 and his book on the development of the modern form of the ideas of separation of church and state and individual liberty. His most recent book is Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty (Viking 2012).

Barry's 1997 book Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list and won the 1998 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians for the year's best book on American history. His work on water-related issues was recognized by the National Academies of Sciences in its invitation to give the 2006 Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture on Water Resources; he is the only non-scientist ever to give that lecture.

His 2004 book The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest Plague in History was also a New York Times Best Seller, and won the 2005 Keck Communications Award from the United States National Academies of Science for the year's outstanding book on science or medicine. In 2005 he also won the "September 11th Award" from the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Pathogens at Brown University. He has served on a federal government's Infectious Disease Board of Experts, on the advisory board of MIT's Center for Engineering Fundamentals, and on the advisory committee at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for its Center for Refugee and Disaster Response.

The expertise he developed in these two areas has involved him in policy-making, risk communication and disaster management strategies, and developing resilient communities, and this work resulted in his induction into Delta Omega, the academic honorary society for public health. More specifically, he has advised the private sector and local, state, national, and international government officials about preparing for another influenza pandemic. He has also both advised officials and taken a direct role in preparing for water-related disasters. A resident of New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina he was also named to both the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority, which is the levee board overseeing several separate levee districts in the New Orleans area, and the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, which is responsible for hurricane protection for the entire state.

His first book, The Ambition and the Power: A true story of Washington, appeared in 1989 and explored the operation of the U.S. Congress, the use of power by Speaker of the House Jim Wright, and the rise of future Speaker Newt Gingrich. In 1995 the New York Times named it one of the eleven best books ever written on Congress and Washington.

With Steven Rosenberg, MD, Ph.D., chief of the Surgery Branch at the National Cancer Institute and a pioneer in the development of "immunotherapy" for cancer—stimulating the immune system to attack cancer—Barry co-authored his second book, The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer, which was published in 12 languages.

Barry has written for The New York Times, Time Magazine, Fortune, The Washington Post, Esquire, and other publications and frequently appears as a guest commentator on broadcast media.

He has also coached high school and college football, and his first published article was about blocking assignments for offensive linemen and appeared in a professional journal for coaches, Scholastic Coach.

出版者:Viking Adult
作者:John M. Barry
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頁數:560
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出版時間:2004-2-9
價格:USD 29.95
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9780670894734
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  • 曆史 
  • 公共衛生 
  • 科普 
  • 瘟疫 
  • 英文原版 
  • 社會學 
  • Medical 
  • 美國 
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No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty years; it killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages killed in a century. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken, and died. In the United States, where bodies were stacked without coffins on trucks, nearly seven times as many people died of influenza as in the First World War.

In his powerful new book, award-winning historian John M. Barry unfolds a tale that is magisterial in its breadth and in the depth of its research, and spellbinding as he weaves multiple narrative strands together. In this first great collision between science and epidemic disease, even as society approached collapse, a handful of heroic researchers stepped forward, risking their lives to confront this strange disease. Titans like William Welch at the newly formed Johns Hopkins Medical School and colleagues at Rockefeller University and others from around the country revolutionized American science and public health, and their work in this crisis led to crucial discoveries that we are still using and learning from today.

The Washington Post’s Jonathan Yardley said Barry’s last book can "change the way we think." The Great Influenza may also change the way we see the world.

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同济大学教授张晓艳站在自家的大书架前,左右翻找,取出一本已经翻烂的《大流感》。 就在之前,她收到一位相熟领导询问这本书的短信,称“到处都买不到”。这才意识到,丈夫钟扬这本2008年出版的译作再度成了畅销书。 读过《大流感》的人们感慨,书中所描绘的百年前情景竟与新...  

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【历史总是惊人的相似,但是人类却总是健忘。】 1918年肇始于美国的大流感随第一次世界大战而爆发。战争带来的巨大人员流动将病毒由美国最先带到欧洲,继而扩散至全世界。拥挤的军营、过载的轮船、甚至短暂的接触,无一逃不过病毒传播的魔掌,这一场横扫世界的流感带来了千万人...  

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實在是太囉嗦瞭,可能是流行作者個人風格的原因把所有事情都描述的特彆dramatic。最喜歡最後講科學傢個人經曆的幾章,前麵關於疾病的全球傳播寫的不夠清楚。

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實在是太囉嗦瞭,可能是流行作者個人風格的原因把所有事情都描述的特彆dramatic。最喜歡最後講科學傢個人經曆的幾章,前麵關於疾病的全球傳播寫的不夠清楚。

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後記乳滑瞭

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多年前度過中文版,最近偶遇2018英文版,再讀一遍,雖然覺得絮叨鬆散,總有大段醞釀情緒營造氣氛或者過多刻畫人物,篇幅縮短一半大概也正好。基本上是以大流感為背景,對美國醫學研究崛起的全景描繪瞭。後記在此刻讀來最是應景。作者大概也沒想到,兩年前所寫的後記,字字句句印證瞭兩年後的世界吧。希望多年後,也有類似描寫記錄covid-19的作品。

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雖然作者比較喜歡時空穿梭式的寫法,在記錄大流感事件本身以外還夾敘瞭很多科學史方麵的東西,讀起來沒有一般的Non-fiction那麼暢快。但是這些夾帶的信息輸齣的質量還是挺高的,我還挺喜歡他的「掉書袋」,感覺算是本書的特色。

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