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Uses of a pandemic: Forging the identities of influenza and virus research in interwar Britain

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Social History of Medicine, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 400 - 424

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DOI (Published version): 10.1093/shm/hkr162

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This paper counters the tendency to retrospectively viralise the 1918–19 pandemic and to gloss the important historiographical point that, in Britain, such knowledge was in-the-making between 1918 and 1933. It traces the genesis of influenza’s virus identity to British efforts in 1918–19 to specify...

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Published in: Social History of Medicine
Published: 2012
Online Access: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/2/400.full
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