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

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 554 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps Series Carleton Library series ; 247 Carleton library series ; 247. 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 2017 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 Analysis 20th century Easter Island Ecology History Medical Care Medical expeditions Medicine Research Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 11, 2022) Subject Skoryna, Stanley C. SUBJECT Canadian Medical Expedition to Easter Island (1964-1965) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019058081 Subject Medical expeditions -- Easter Island -- History -- 20th century Medicine -- Research -- Easter Island -- History -- 20th century Medical care -- Easter Island -- History -- 20th century Expeditions -- history HISTORY -- Expeditions & Discoveries. Ecology Medical care Medical expeditions Medicine -- Research SUBJECT Easter Island -- Environmental conditions -- 20th century Polynesia Subject Easter Island Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773557819 0773557814 9780773557802 0773557806

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