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Author DeKok, David.

Title Epidemic : a collision of power, privilege, and public health / David DeKok.

Imprint Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  614.511209 D369e 2011    ---  Available
Description xix, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prelude: June 16, 1903 -- Ithaca and its kings -- The boys club -- Conflict of interest -- Newsmen -- The dam -- Lives of the students -- The valley of death -- Typhoid, and how the epidemic began -- Denial -- Apocalypse -- The fixer -- Going home -- The man who saved Ithaca -- The man who saved Cornell University -- Retribution -- Epilogue: Getting away with murder -- Afterword: The conquest of typhoid.
Subject Typhoid fever -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- History -- 20th century.
Epidemics -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- History -- 20th century.
Epidemics -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- History -- 20th century.
Morris, William T. (William Torrey), 1853-1928 -- Influence.
Businessmen -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- Biography.
Corruption -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- History -- 20th century.
Water-supply -- Health aspects -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- History -- 20th century.
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
Cornell University -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780762760084
0762760087

 
    
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