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Stanley's dream : the Medical Expedition to Easter Island /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Carleton library series ;
247. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.