Epidemic
Subtitle: a collision of power, privilege, and public health
By: David DeKok
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780762760084
Subjects: Water-supply; Typhoid fever; Epidemics; Cornell University; Influence; Businessmen; Corruption; Biography; History
Description: Looks at the circumstances surrounding the typhoid fever epidemic that struck Ithaca, New York, and Cornell University in 1903.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude: June 16, 1903; title: Ithaca and its kings; title: The boys club; title: Conflict of interest; title: Newsmen; title: The dam; title: Lives of the students; title: The valley of death; title: Typhoid, and how the epidemic began; title: Denial; title: Apocalypse; title: The fixer; title: Going home; title: The man who saved Ithaca; title: The man who saved Cornell University; title: Retribution; title: Epilogue: Getting away with murder; title: Afterword: The conquest of typhoid.