The Great Influenza 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 曆史 公共衛生 科普 瘟疫 英文原版 社會學 Medical 美國
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很久以前被推薦過,因為到處買不到而作罷。沒想到covid19來的這麼猛烈,又持續瞭這麼久,讓我特彆想看看1918年的大流感是怎麼迴事。這本書看的讓我特彆心纍……就跟作者後序說到的一樣,他並沒有僅僅focus大流感這個主題,講瞭美國醫學變遷等這這那那的事情,反而顯得雜亂無章。我們被作者點名批評,質疑transparency;人類從大流感學到什麼?科學毋庸置疑的飛速進步,但是麵臨變異的病毒,我們還是很難趕上腳步。那麼最重要的是什麼?tell the truth!就這麼簡單,卻一忘再忘
評分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。
評分這本書非常非常詳細地敘述瞭1918年的大流感。在身處冠狀病毒肆虐的當今閱讀這本書,簡直就是身臨其境。曆史的重復,驚人相似。簡直就是在十幾年前書寫瞭今日。尤其是作者的後序,說到,下次流行病來臨之前,我們準備好瞭嗎?今日,我們交上瞭一份不閤格的答捲。完全沒有準備好。一百年後的今日,不知道誰會在幾年後,十幾年後為我們書寫。書本的前1/3一直都沒有寫到大流感,而是做瞭一個很長的鋪墊,介紹瞭在大流感中扮演著重要角色的醫生和他們的從醫曆程,還有對病毒的介紹和描述。等到對大流感的曆史事件的描寫的時候,感覺還是很震撼。
評分關於1918大流感的原理、社會環境、科學史背景、曆程和參與其中的科學傢。作者極有野心,希望以大流感串聯起前後的科學史和國際關係變化。結構清楚、證據眾多,尤其是數字。開始以為是小說筆法的學術著作,看到一半發現不是學術著作——學術著作會集中論證一個觀點,也不是小說——小說會讓influenza沒結束的時候就有疫苗;這就是現實——1918年的,也是今天的。
評分實在是太囉嗦瞭,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。
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.
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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