This pioneering study of the geography of influenza during the twentieth century explores how geographical factors contribute to the periodic diffusion of influenza epidemics in the United States, adding a spatial dimension to national efforts to control the disease. Pyle brings together findings from history, virology, epidemiology, and demographics to develop a geographic model of influenza transmission.

Grippe / Impfung / Politik.

The distance between medical and public priorities is exposed in four case studies that reveal the human choices governing scientific innnovation and explore the political, economic and social factors influencing those choices.

Foreword to the 1999 EditionSir John MaddoxForeword to the 1999 EditionSteven ShapinAcknowledgments and a Note on SourcesIntroductionBook OneI. The Scientific CommunityII. Chauvinism, Xenophobia, and EvangelismBook TwoIII. When Science Was an OrphanIV. The War-born RelationshipV. The Experience of WarVI. Meshing the IncompatibleVII. The Reluctant LeadersBook ThreeVIII. The Government of ScienceIX. Mohole: The Anatomy of a FiascoX. High Energy PoliticsXI. MURA's Last StandXII. The New Politics of ScienceAfterwordIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Summary: It is crucial to understand that our progression through the twentieth century towards our contemporary global Crystal Palace (Peter Sloterdijk) of purity and transparency has been constantly accompanied by an almost physical desire for the pure, not just Mondrian's crystalline structures, but also the addictive taste of white sugar and white bread. This book investigates this urge for the pure, but also advocates a much deeper need for the impure, not to reinstate a new organicism, one more back-to-nature movement, but to trace that progression to a point where all modernist values reverse, where technology becomes an agent for the impure and the imperfect. Technology, long an agent for homogeneity and purity, is now turning into one for heterogeneity and global contingency.