The Epidemic: A Collision of Power, Privilege, and Public Health (USED)

The Epidemic: A Collision of Power, Privilege, and Public Health by David DeKok Lyons Press, 2011, First Edition **Please note these are USED books and are being re-sold in GOOD condition - Minimal wear expected** ------------- The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William T. Morris faced no retribution for this outrage. His legacy was a corporation – first known as Associated Gas & Electric Co. and later as General Public Utilities Corp. – that bedeviled America for a century. The Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979 was its most notorious historical event, but hardly its only offense against the public interest.