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| Material Type: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven Johnson |
| ISBN: | 9781594482694 1594482691 |
| OCLC Number: | 149010628 |
| Description: | xviii, 299, [2] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- Monday, August 28 : the night-soil men -- Saturday, September 2 : eyes sunk, lips dark blue -- Sunday, September 3 : the investigator -- Monday, September 4 : that is to say, Jo has not yet died -- Tuesday, September 5 : all smell is disease -- Wednesday, September 6 : building the case -- Friday, September 8 : the pump handle -- Conclusion : the ghost map -- Epilogue : Broad Street revisited -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix : notes on further reading -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Steven Johnson. |
Abstract:
A chronicle of Victorian London's worst cholera outbreak traces the day-by-day efforts of Dr. John Snow, who put his own life on the line in his efforts to prove his previously dismissed contagion theory about how the epidemic was spreading.
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