The Epidemic (ePub)
A Collision of Power, Privilege, and Public Health
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for
a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town
of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell...
a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town
of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell...
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The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for
a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town
of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William T. Morris faced no retribution for this outrage. His legacy was a corporation-first known as Associated Gas & Electric Co. and later as General Public Utilities Corp.-that bedeviled America for a century. The Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979 was its most notorious historical event, but hardly its only offense against the public interest.
The Ithaca epidemic came at a time when engineers knew how to prevent typhoid outbreaks but physicians could not yet cure the disease. Both professions were helpless when it came to stopping a corporate executive who placed profit over the public health. Government was a concerned but helpless bystander.
In this emotionally gripping book, David DeKok, a former award-winning investigative reporter
and the author of widely praised books on the mine fire that devastated Centralia, Pennsylvania, brings this tragedy home by taking us into the lives of many of those most deeply affected.
For modern-day readers acutely aware of the risk of a devastating global pandemic and of the dangers of unrestrained corporate power, The Epidemic provides a riveting look back at a heretofore little-known, frightening episode in America's past that seems all too familiar.Written in the tradition of The Devil in the White City, it is an utterly compelling, thoroughly researched work of narrative history with an edge.
a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town
of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William T. Morris faced no retribution for this outrage. His legacy was a corporation-first known as Associated Gas & Electric Co. and later as General Public Utilities Corp.-that bedeviled America for a century. The Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979 was its most notorious historical event, but hardly its only offense against the public interest.
The Ithaca epidemic came at a time when engineers knew how to prevent typhoid outbreaks but physicians could not yet cure the disease. Both professions were helpless when it came to stopping a corporate executive who placed profit over the public health. Government was a concerned but helpless bystander.
In this emotionally gripping book, David DeKok, a former award-winning investigative reporter
and the author of widely praised books on the mine fire that devastated Centralia, Pennsylvania, brings this tragedy home by taking us into the lives of many of those most deeply affected.
For modern-day readers acutely aware of the risk of a devastating global pandemic and of the dangers of unrestrained corporate power, The Epidemic provides a riveting look back at a heretofore little-known, frightening episode in America's past that seems all too familiar.Written in the tradition of The Devil in the White City, it is an utterly compelling, thoroughly researched work of narrative history with an edge.
Autoren-Porträt von David Dekok
By David Dekok
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Dekok
- 2011, First Edition, 304 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Lyons Press
- ISBN-10: 0762787228
- ISBN-13: 9780762787227
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2011
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