Editing History of medicine (section)

=== Public health ===
[[Public health]] measures became particularly important during the [[1918 flu pandemic]], which killed at least 50 million people around the world.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History]] |vauthors=Barry JM |date=2020 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-241-99157-2 |author-link1=John M. Barry}}</ref> It became an [[Spanish flu research|important case study in epidemiology]].<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Van Hartesveldt FR |date=2010 |title=The Doctors and the 'Flu': The British Medical Profession's Response to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 |journal=International Social Science Review |volume=85 |issue=1 |pages=28–39 |jstor=41887429}}</ref> Bristow shows there was a gendered response of health caregivers to the pandemic in the United States. Male doctors were unable to cure the patients, and they felt like failures. Women nurses also saw their patients die, but they took pride in their success in fulfilling their professional role of caring for, ministering, comforting, and easing the last hours of their patients, and helping the families of the patients cope as well.