Revisiting the Island of Doctor Moreau

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Breedlove, Byron
• Description:
  Kate Gibb (1972–), The Island of Doctor Moreau, 2006 (detail). Silkscreen by hand on paper, 19.7 in × 27.6 in/50 cm × 70 cm. Digital image used with permission of the artist. London, England
  
  This month’s cover art, created by contemporary English printmaker and illustrator Kate Gibb― known for her colorful, detailed screen-printed art- work developed for musicians and fashion design- ers―was first featured on another cover, the 2005 reissue of a classic work of early horror and science- fiction, The Island of Doctor Moreau by English writer H.G. Wells. Originally published in 1896, Wells’s novel chronicles the story of the shipwrecked Eng- lishman Edward Prendick. Stranded on a remote, un- charted island, Prendick is nursed back to health after his ordeal at sea only to discover he has washed up on an isle of horrors. Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist, has fled to the island from England after his experiments in vivisection were exposed. Here the doctor works without restraints, accountability, or moral guidance, performing gruesome, cruel experiments designed to transform animals into humans.
  
  
• Subjects:
  About The Cover
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 27(10):2747-2748
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8462314
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  About the Cover
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:22690e70f21f34f304715629d0b3a8f2f98e8f974f699d37b0b0957834187601
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/110454/cdc_110454_DS1.pdf
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