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Author Duffin, Jacalyn, author.

Title Stanley's dream : the Medical Expedition to Easter Island / Jacalyn Duffin.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Carleton Library series ; 247
Carleton library series ; 247.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Dream Plan for a Troubled World -- Convincing Canada, Building a Team -- The Journey Out -- Raising Camp Hilton -- The Study Begins -- Revolution, Politics, and Disease -- Plants, Animals, Mores, and Microbes -- Return of HMCS Cape Scott -- Personal and Popular Results -- The Scientific Papers Begin -- Virology, Psychology, and Return Visits -- Nógrády's Legacy and a Wonder Drug -- Forgetting METEI and the IBP -- METEI.
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Canadian Medical Expedition to Easter Island (1964-1965)
Skoryna, Stanley C.
Expédition médicale canadienne à l'île de Pâques (1964-1965)
Medical expeditions -- Easter Island -- History -- 20th century.
Medical expeditions.
Easter Island.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Medicine -- Research -- Easter Island -- History -- 20th century.
Medicine -- Research.
Medical care -- Easter Island -- History -- 20th century.
Medical care.
Easter Island -- Environmental conditions -- 20th century.
Environmental conditions.
Polynesia.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Indexed Term 20th century
Easter Island
Ecology
History
Medical Care
Medical expeditions
Medicine
Research
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Subject Medical care.
Other Form: Print version: Duffin, Jacalyn. Stanley's dream. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019 0773557105 9780773557109 (OCoLC)1065720245
ISBN 0773557806
9780773557819 (ePUB)
0773557814
9780773557802 (electronic book)
0773557105 (hardcover)
9780773557109 (hardcover)