Epidemic
Autor David Dekoken Limba Engleză Hardback – feb 2011
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Specificații
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
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
Textul de pe ultima copertă
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.
Notă biografică
David DeKok is a former investigative reporter for The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., where he specialized in coverage of the utility industry for the past dozen years. He won first place reporting awards from The National Press Club, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, and Associated Press Managing Editors of Pennsylvania. His first book, Unseen Danger: A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire, was published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 1986 and was reissued by Globe Pequot Press as Fire Underground.Unseen Danger was reviewed in the Sunday New York Times Book Review of Jan. 4, 1987, and was the subject of a national story by Associated Press.
DeKok appeared on Fresh Air and The Diane Rehm Show to promote his first book. In 2007, he explained the Centralia mine fire in the documentary film, The Town That Was, which screened in competition at the Los Angeles and Philadelphia film festival. In 2009, heappeared at length in Episode 6 of The History Channel's Life After People series discussing Centralia, Pennsylvania.
DeKok appeared on Fresh Air and The Diane Rehm Show to promote his first book. In 2007, he explained the Centralia mine fire in the documentary film, The Town That Was, which screened in competition at the Los Angeles and Philadelphia film festival. In 2009, heappeared at length in Episode 6 of The History Channel's Life After People series discussing Centralia, Pennsylvania.