Stanley's Dream - Jacalyn Duffin

Stanley's Dream

The Medical Expedition to Easter Island

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
576 Seiten
2019
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-5710-9 (ISBN)
44,85 inkl. MwSt
The story of a passionate attempt to capture the entire biosphere of an isolated community facing ecological transformation.
In 1964–65, an international team of thirty-eight scientists and assistants, led by Montreal physician Stanley Skoryna, sailed to the mysterious Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to conduct an unprecedented survey of its biosphere. Born of Cold War concerns about pollution, overpopulation, and conflict, and initially conceived as the first of two trips, the project was designed to document the island's status before a proposed airport would link the one thousand people living in humanity's remotest community to the rest of the world – its germs, genes, culture, and economy. Based on archival papers, diaries, photographs, and interviews with nearly twenty members of the original team, Stanley's Dream sets the expedition in its global context within the early days of ecological research and the understudied International Biological Program. Jacalyn Duffin traces the origins, the voyage, the often-complicated life within the constructed camp, the scientific preoccupations, the role of women, the resultant reports, films, and publications, and the previously unrecognized accomplishments of the project, including a goodwill tour of South America, the delivery of vaccines, and the discovery of a wonder drug. For Rapa Nui, the expedition coincided with its rebellion against the colonizing Chilean military, resulting in its first democratic election. For Canada, it reflected national optimism as the country prepared for its centennial and adopted its own flag. Ending with Duffin's own journey to the island to uncover the legacy of the study and the impact of the airport, and to elicit local memories, Stanley's Dream is an entertaining and poignant account of a long-forgotten but important Canadian-led international expedition.

Jacalyn Duffin, physician and historian, is professor emerita at Queen's University, where she held the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine from 1988 to 2017.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Carleton Library Series
Zusatzinfo 145 images, 16 tables, 18 figures, 3 maps, colour section
Verlagsort Montreal
Sprache englisch
Maße 165 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 0-7735-5710-5 / 0773557105
ISBN-13 978-0-7735-5710-9 / 9780773557109
Zustand Neuware
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