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100 1 _aGullion, Jessica Smartt,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aOctober Birds :
_ba A Novel about Pandemic Influenza, Infection Control, and First Responders /
_cJessica Smartt Gullion.
246 3 _aA Novel about Pandemic Influenza, Infection Control, and First Responders
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBrill | Sense,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aSocial Fictions Series ;
_v10
490 1 _aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Afterword -- About the Author.
520 _aEn 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 management 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 the 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 the town searches for a cure. October Birds is grounded in real-life public health practice, sociological research, and emergency management. It is ‘a/r/tographical research,’sociological inquiry within the science/art intersection. October Birds is more than a story—it is also a sociological theory of community-level response to health threats. This novel can be read as a supplementary text in a number of disciplines, including sociology, nursing, public health, health studies, emergency management, and psychology, and can be used in qualitative research methods courses as an example of arts-based research. It can also be read simply for pleasure, and instill the question: ‘What if?’ What if a devastating pandemic does emerge? How will we respond? “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.”—as reviewed on The Sociological Imagination.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aPhysicians.
650 0 _aEducation.
650 0 _aEpidemics.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tOctober Birds: A Novel about Pandemic Influenza, Infection Control, and First Responders,
_dLeiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2014
_w9789462095892
830 0 _aSocial Fictions Series ;
_v10.
830 0 _aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-590-8
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