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October Birds: A Novel about Pandemic Influenza, Infection Control, and First Responders (Social Fictions) - Softcover
Synopsis
En route to a conference, a physician from Jakarta boards a plane to the US. He does not know he is the index patient for the next global influenza pandemic. From this catalyst, thousands of people will get sick, hundreds of people will die. October Birds follows the healthcare and emergency responders in the town of Dalton, Texas, as they cope with the unfolding pandemic. Dr. Eliza Gordon, Chief Epidemiologist for the city, struggles to control the outbreak and be a mother. Infectious disease specialist Dr. Ben Cromwell tries to maintain control of the increasing numbers of patients at Memorial Hospital, while Memorial's infection control specialist fights to limit the spread of the disease to the healthcare workers and other patients. Dalton's emergency manager copes with an ever increasing logistical nightmare, and the incident commander tries to hold everything together. Meanwhile a currendera in town searches for a cure. October Birds is grounded in real-life public health practice, sociological research, and emergency management. Is is a/r/tographical research, sociological inquiry within the science/art intersection.
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About the Author
Jessica Smartt Gullion, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman’s University, where she teaches courses on medical sociology and qualitative research methods. Dr Gullion is the author of more than twenty peer-reviewed articles, in such journals as the International Review of Qualitative Research, the Journal of Applied Social Science, Qualitative Inquiry, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the Archives of Internal Medicine, and Clinical Infectious Diseases. Her research focuses on how communities cope with health threats. See an interview with Jessica Smart Gullion regarding OCTOBER BIRDS:
http: //www. examiner.com/article/pandemic-influenza-infection-control-and-first-responders-with-dr-gullion
Review
"A very grim but often compelling thriller." -- Kirkus Review
"October Birds is a narrative that will have any student, health care practitioner, or person who reads enthralled with the true possibilities of what might be transpiring inside the walls of their local county health department." -- Sociological Imagination
"As a work of fiction it is an easy and entertaining read which is sufficiently convincing to paint a worrying picture of a society's ability to cope. As a work of scientific writing it emphasizes the importance of key policy questions that need to be informed through better multidisciplinary science." -- The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
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- PublisherSense
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 9462095884
- ISBN 13 9789462095885
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages162
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