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Joseph James Kinyoun

Discoverer of Bubonic Plague in America and Father of the National Institutes of Health

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8290-7
Verlag: McFarland
Erscheinungstermin: 01.10.2021
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In March 1900, Dr. Joseph James Kinyoun, a Surgeon with the Marine Hospital Service and student of Louis Pasteur and Dr. Robert Koch, detected bubonic plague in San Francisco, while stationed on Angel Island as a federal quarantine officer. His discovery of the plague led to an immediate outcry from California's governor, local and state politicians, and the city's commercial interests. The hyper-sensationalized journalism of San Francisco's newspapers leapt at the opportunity. Kinyoun would be ridiculed in the press for over a year, leading to death threats and a $50,000 bounty on his head. Eventually, California's quarantine caused an enormous uproar. In time, a special plague commission was installed by the U. S. Treasury Department. After the commissioners completed their report, Supervisory Surgeon-General Walter Wyman withheld it from the public leading to charges of a coverup. In the end, Wyman released the report, which totally vindicated Kinyoun, but a deal had been brokered behind the scenes wherein Kinyoun was removed from his post. This book tells a timely story about yellow journalism, coverup, corruption, the struggle between science and politics, and the consequences of blind denial of the truth.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781476682907
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4766-8290-7
  • Verlag: McFarland
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.10.2021
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2021
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 547 g
  • Seiten: 234
  • Format (B x H x T): 178 x 254 x 16 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by David M. Morens, MD
Introduction
I. The War Was Now Over
II. The Marine Hospital Service
III. The European Influence
IV. The New Frontier
V. The Pursuit: 1890-1891
VI. A Whirlwind of Discovery and Research: 1891-1894
VII. Widening the Realm: 1895-1896
VIII. The First Decade
IX. Abroad Again
X. War and the Third Pandemic
XI. 1899: The Year of Great Upheaval
XII. Angel Island
XIII. Y. Pestis
XIV. Venomous Pens
XV. Darkening Clouds
XVI. The Price of Truth
XVII. Farewells
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index