MEDICAL

Amidst the evolving scientific knowledge of epidemic diseases during the mid-to-late 19th century, Guarding the Golden Gate narrates the development of the Quarantine Station on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay and illuminates the everyday activities of the station’s personnel as they met both political and public health challenges.

The Spanish flu pandemic was at least 20 times more lethal than COVID-19. This book critically reviews the 1918 flu pandemic, focusing on the Basque Country (France-Spain) and Western Europe. The unpredictable and anarchic behavior of that pandemic is a source of lessons to confront COVID-19 and future pandemics.