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Epidemic de David Dekok

Epidemic

Autor David Dekok
en Limba Engleză Hardback – feb 2011
The Epidemic tells how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town of Ithaca, N.Y. Eighty-two people died, including 29 Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William T. Morris faced no retribution for this outrage.
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ISBN-13: 9780762760084
ISBN-10: 0762760087
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 158 x 236 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1 Rev ed.
Editura: Globe Pequot Publishing

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The dramatic account of a typhoid epidemic in Ithaca, New York, in 1903, and its dark underside--with lessons for today. From the Prelude: June 16, 1903 All the dead young men and women in Ithaca, and especially at Cornell University, set this epidemic apart. The Ithaca catastrophe riveted America's attention during February and March of 1903. . . . Typhoid touched 522 homes in Ithaca, and in 150 of those, two or more people came down with the disease. Yet it had been less an epidemic, which suggests chance, than a crime, a completely preventable catastrophe brought on by the grandiosity, greed, and stupidity of men. Businessman William T. Morris was the principal actor, but he was aided and abetted by his wealthy Ithaca friends who sat on the boards of local banks and Cornell University. Blinded by class and personal loyalties, they arranged critical financing from the university that unintentionally set the deadly events in motion and then protected Morris against a day of reckoning. What happened in Ithaca was not simply bad luck or God's will. When a water company owner ignores the competent and well-grounded advice of his engineer for economic reasons, and suffering and death result, it is not hyperbole to label it a crime.