Understanding the Role of Medical Experts during a Public Health Crisis: Digital Tools and Library Resources for Research on the 1918 Spanish Influenza

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dc.contributorVirginia Techen
dc.contributor.authorEwing, E. Thomasen
dc.contributor.authorGad, Samahen
dc.contributor.authorRamakrishnan, Narenen
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-23T14:52:10Zen
dc.date.available2017-10-23T14:52:10Zen
dc.date.issued2014-10en
dc.description.abstractHumanities scholars, particularly historians of health and disease, can benefit from digitized library collections and tools such as topic modeling. Using a case study from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, this paper explores the application of a big humanities approach to understanding the impact of a public health official on the course of the disease and the response of the public, as documented through digitized newspapers and medical periodicals.en
dc.description.sponsorshipResearch by Ewing, Gad, and Ramakrishnan was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities though a Digging into Data Challenge Grant. Contributions by Reznick were supported by the Intramural Research Program of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata.2014.7004451en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/79734en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherIEEEen
dc.relation.ispartof2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Dataen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectHistoryen
dc.subjectDiseaseen
dc.subjectData Miningen
dc.subjectPublic Healthen
dc.subjectTopic Modelingen
dc.titleUnderstanding the Role of Medical Experts during a Public Health Crisis: Digital Tools and Library Resources for Research on the 1918 Spanish Influenzaen
dc.typeConference proceedingen

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