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The ghost map : the story of London's most terrifying epidemic-- and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world
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The ghost map : the story of London's most terrifying epidemic-- and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world

Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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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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