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Pale Rider de Laura Spinney

Pale Rider

Autor Laura Spinney
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iun 2018

Remarcăm în Pale Rider o monografie istorică de o amploare remarcabilă, care scoate la lumină dimensiunile uitate ale celei mai mari catastrofe umane din epoca modernă: gripa spaniolă. În timp ce manualele de istorie tind să eclipseze această pandemie în favoarea Primului Război Mondial, Laura Spinney demonstrează că virusul a fost un agent de schimbare geopolitică la fel de puternic ca orice conflict armat. Analiza sa depășește granițele medicinei, explorând cum boala a accelerat independența Indiei sau a pus bazele sistemului de apartheid în Africa de Sud. Credem că forța acestui text rezidă în capacitatea de a conecta destine individuale celebre — precum cele ale lui Franz Kafka sau Mahatma Gandhi — cu mișcările tectonice ale societății globale. Comparabil cu America's Forgotten Pandemic de Alfred W. Crosby în rigurozitatea documentării, Pale Rider este însă actualizat pentru a include perspective moderne din virologie și economie, oferind o viziune multidisciplinară pe care lucrările mai vechi nu o puteau accesa. Stilul narativ este precis, evitând senzaționalismul, dar subliniind vulnerabilitatea umană în fața unui inamic microscopic. Observăm o continuitate tematică clară față de lucrarea anterioară a autoarei, 1918 - Die Welt im Fieber, însă ediția de față rafinează argumentele despre modul în care pandemia a creat „generația pierdută” și a forțat inovația în sănătatea publică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781784702403
ISBN-10: 1784702404
Pagini: 332
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Vintage

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie socială și medicină care doresc să înțeleagă cum o criză sanitară poate reconfigura ordinea mondială. Veți câștiga o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care gripa din 1918 a influențat arta, religia și politica secolului XX. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege reziliența societăților umane în fața dezastrelor naturale de proporții catastrofale.

Despre autor

Laura Spinney este o scriitoare și jurnalistă de știință britanică, recunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a sintetiza date complexe din epidemiologie și istorie într-o narațiune accesibilă. Lucrările sale se concentrează adesea pe intersecția dintre biologie și comportament social. Prin Pale Rider, Spinney s-a impus ca o voce autoritară în studiul impactului cultural al bolilor infecțioase, explorând nu doar cifrele mortalității, ci și „urmele” psihologice și politice lăsate de pandemii în memoria colectivă a umanității.

Notă biografică

Laura Spinney is a science journalist and a literary novelist. She is the author of two novels and her writing on science has appeared in National Geographic, Nature, The Economist and The Telegraph, among others. Born in the UK, she has also lived in France and Switzerland.

Descriere

Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer - and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic. 'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story...

Recenzii

"Impressive...Set against the devastating backdrop of global contagion, it is individual lives and deaths, discovered in letters, diaries, biographies and memoirs, that epitomize this rich account. Spinney invokes potent images...Along with exemplary research, Spinney's narrative is packed with fascinating, quirky detail...As the centenary of this monumental event approaches, other volumes on the pandemic will undoubtedly appear. Pale Rider sets the bar very high."—Nature
"A saga of tragedies and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past. As the book progresses, the flu is cast increasingly as a character that crops up Zelig-like at important moments in history, altering the course of events previously unattributed to it.... Compelling."—The Guardian
"A book about the Spanish flu could so easily be dreary-complex pathology interwoven with pervasive tragedy. Not so Pale Rider. I've seldom had so much fun reading about people dying. Laura Spinney, a science journalist, is adept at explaining arcane scientific research in an entertaining, comprehensible way. ...With superb investigative skill and a delightfully light-hearted writing style, Spinney extends her analysis far beyond the relatively short duration of the plague....Spinney finds it odd that we know so little about the worst calamity to affect the human race. So do I. There are tens of thousands of books about the First World War, yet that flu is, arguable, more relevant to our world. While global war is, we hope, a thing of the past, global pestilence hovers like a vulture."—The Times
"Wide-sweeping... Spinney is a storyteller with a science writer's cabinet of facts. Retracing influenza's death trail over nine continents, she attempts to show how the flu affected not only the war-torn West but also remote communities in South Africa, China, and Brazil. The book reveals how desperately and differently people reacted and how gravely the flu influenced the modern world, touching everything from medicine to business and from politics to poetry."—Science
"Influenza, like all viruses, is a parasite. Laura Spinney traces its long shadow over human history... Ms Spinney ties the virulence of Spanish flu to its genetic irregularities and does a good job of explaining containment strategies through epidemiology... In Europe and North America the first world war killed more than Spanish flu; everywhere else the reverse is true. Yet most narratives focus on the West... Ms Spinney's book goes some way to redress the balance."—The Economist
"This riveting study plots the course of the deadliest pandemic in history."
—The Sunday Times
"Ambitious...Spinney delves into the unfolding tragedy around the globe, looking at Brazil, China, Iran, India, and Russia. There is fascinating detail."—The Spectator
"An excruciating report on the global disaster...Absorbing...Spinney's important book does not attempt to offer light reading. No less than four pandemics are predicted in the 21st century. At least one will take the form of flu. Vaccination is not cheap, because the flu virus is constantly mutating. Annual vaccines currently offer the best protection. Britain does still possess a National Health Service. The enduring message of Spinney's magisterial work is to underline just how crucial that remarkable service is to the future security of an unusually privileged nation. Let's hope the author's book is read with care by Theresa May."
—The Observer
"Spinney's book is intensely readable, and instead of a strictly chronological account she circles around history, epidemiology and culture to give a panoramic portrait of the previous century's most deadly pandemic. We are probably due another one of these any day now, this is a great way to see what the future holds."
—The Awl
"A masterful account of the possible origins, spread, and cultural consequences of this modern-day plague."
—Geographical
"A vividly recreated, grimly fascinating book...Coolly, crisply and with a consistently sharp eye for the telling anecdote...Spinney demonstrates how Spanish flu cast a long, dark shadow over the 20th century."
—The Daily Mail
"[Spinney] evokes a world that seems both farther from us than a mere century, and also uncomfortably close... If we can't reconstruct our memories of the Spanish flu quickly enough, millions more will die in the next pandemic."—The Tyee
"Remarkable... a concise but comprehensive work."—The Cascadia Advocate
"One of the many strengths of Pale Rider is to show its readers the regional variations that combat took throughout the world, from Bristol Bay to Zamora to Unalaska Island... For all the tragedies and upheavals, the book portrays, Pale Rider actually paints an oddly hopeful picture of a population more sensitized to early warnings and largely more willing to heed them."—The National
"An insightful and valuable account for all history collections."—Library Journal
"Pale Rider contains vivid journalistic accounts of outbreaks around the world, from the U.S. to China, India, and Persia...Insightful."
—Publisher's Weekly
"A compelling, expert account of a half-forgotten historical catastrophe."—Kirkus Reviews
"Spinney's detailed discussion includes the why and how, the human devastation, and the effects on institutions and world affairs. Now nearly 100 years removed from the 1918 Spanish flu, Spinney wonders what lessons it has imparted that might help us prepare for and deal with the next, inevitable influenza pandemic."—Booklist
"Spinney argues that almost a century later, the Spanish flu is 'still emerging from the shadows of the First World War' in our collective memories. She sets out to rectify this, knowing just which medical mysteries and haunting vignettes will give the pandemic full purchase on our imaginations."—New York Times Book Review
"A page turner that should easily satisfy armchair historians and epidemiologists and anybody who likes a good, if gruesome, yarn."
—Foreign Policy
"Scarier than science fiction... You'll want to get your flu shot after reading this book."
—Zocalo, Best Books of 2017
"A frightening new book... Those readers wishing to prevent tragedies like the one in 1918 should read this book."
—Lincoln Journal Star