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The media image of the Spanish flu in selected periodicals in the years 1918 - 1920
Vegrichtová, Denisa ; Cebe, Jan (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
The topic of this diploma thesis is the way how the media described the Spanish flu in selected historical press in the years 1918-1920. The main method used is a quantitative content analysis, which enables the examination of a larger volume of data. Quantitative content analysis is performed on articles from the Czech-language newspaper Lidové noviny and from the American newspaper The Sun. In terms of timeframe, the research is limited to the years 1918-1920, i.e. the period when the Spanish flu epidemic took place. Attention is paid to the way in which the Spanish flu was reported in the selected newspapers, for example the frequency of publishing news about the disease, the main topics of the articles, how often articles about the disease made it to the front pages, or whether the disease is presented as fatal. Subsequently, part of the work is devoted to the qualitative analysis of articles from professional medical journals. Two articles are from 1918, another two articles are from 2018 and 2019. In this case, using qualitative analysis, the different views of doctors on the Spanish flu are analyzed, from 1918 - when the epidemic broke out, and a hundred years later. For example, the reported symptoms of the disease or the method of treatment were examined. At the end of the work, after...
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Population structures of Koloveč, 1910-1921.
Hájková, Tereza ; Velková, Alice (advisor) ; Fialová, Ludmila (referee)
Population structures of Koloveč, 1910-1921 Abstract This thesis deals with the Demographic development of the town Koloveč during World War I., which significantly affected the structure of the Population not only in the Czech lands, but also in Europe. The first part deals with the World War I., its origin and consequences that influenced the structure of the population even after the war. Another important event in 1918 was the Spanish flu, which caused the deaths of several tens of millions of people in Europe. The main part of the thesis is devoted to the number of births and deaths of the population and the number of marriages in Koloveč in 1910-1921 based on data from the Koloveč registry. It also includes a comparison between 1910 and 1921 when a census was carried out in the Czech lands. Data are analysed according to preselected criteria in Koloveč. These gauges are divided into four parts, namely Demographic features, ethnic and socio-cultural characteristic and socio-professional characteristics. Key words: World War I., Spanish flu, town Koloveč, population, register
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The Spanish Flu Pandemic 1918/19 with particular reference to the Bohemian Lands and Central European relations
Salfellner, Harald ; Hlaváčková, Ludmila (advisor) ; Fialová, Ludmila (referee) ; Pock, Lumír (referee)
Charles University First Medical Faculty Study programme: History of Medicine Summary of dissertation The Spanish Flu Pandemic 1918/19 with particular reference to the Bohemian Lands and Central European relations Dr. med. univ. Harald Salfellner Prague, 2017 Summary Towards the end of the First World War, in 1918 and 1919, humanity faced a previously unparalleled flu pandemic; within a few months, more people had been killed than in all the battles of the 1914-18 war put together. The precise number of victims is unknown but is today generally reckoned at between 20 and 50 million. The whole world was affected by the Spanish flu, with the exception of a few remote islands, and Europe, already bled to death by industrialised warfare, was particularly hard hit. In summer 1918, the pandemic reached Bohemia in an early, relatively benign wave. A few weeks later, thousands were struck down in Prague in a second and far more deadly phase of the illness. In October 1918, as the First Czechoslovakian Republic arose from the ashes of the multiethnic Austrian state, and the masses celebrated in the cities, thousands of feverish patients were coughing behind drawn curtains, and facing an uncertain fate. In the USA, the flu pandemic - the greatest health disaster of the 20th century - has been the subject of many...
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