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The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London - Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780713999747 (0713999748)
Publisher: Allen Lane
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, History, European Literature, British Literature, Book Club, Science, Health, Medical, History Of Science, Medicine, Illness, Disease
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Sheila's Reads
Sheila's Reads rated it
4.0 THE GHOST MAP by Stephen Johnson
text THE GHOST MAP by Stephen Johnson
Follows a cholera epidemic in London through a doctor and a minister. Interesting but at times I had to re-read parts to understand what he was explaining. I liked the research of the doctor and the minister to track down where the cholera started and to keep it from spreading or recurring. Also enj...
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Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite rated it
3.0 The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
text The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
Some of the things we know now about medicine—hygiene prevents illness, the four humours are bunk, mercury doesn't cure anything—seem so simple that medical history would be laughable if it hadn't been so deadly. It's easy to forget that it took us thousands of years to get to where we are. Steven J...
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Bettie's Books
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3.0 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
text The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
bookshelves: history, sciences, plague-disease, nonfiction Read in August, 2008 Broadwick Street showing the John Snow memorial and pubSnow was a skeptic of the then-dominant miasma theory that stated held that diseases such as cholera or the Black Death were caused by pollution or a noxious for...
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AmySea
AmySea rated it
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I first learned about the 1854 Broad Street cholera epidemic when I listened to Documents that Changed the World podcasts: John Snow’s Cholera Map, 1854. This podcast was narrated by my friend and former colleague Andy. I believe that this podcast, as well as others in this series are available on...
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Sophie
Sophie rated it
2.0 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic - and How it Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science, and the Modern World
text The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic - and How it Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science, and the Modern World
I had to read this for one of my classes at university. It's about the cholera outbreak in London when they figured out how cholera was spread, and the 2 guys who figured it out. It was very dryly written, but many aspects of the book were fascinating. The problem was that Johnson would go off topic...
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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 - Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map - Steven Johnson, Alan Sklar, Tantor Audio
By Steven Johnson The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks (First Edition Thus) - Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map Steven Johnson 1 Reprint edition - Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map 1st (first) edition Text Only - Steven Johnson
Ghost Map - Story Of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - And How It Changed Science, Cities, And The Modern World - Book Club - Steven Johnson
Ghost Map Story of London`s Most Terrifying Epidemic & How It Changed Science, Cities, & the Modern World [HC,2006] - Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map: the Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Audio) - Steven Johnson, Alan Sklar
The Ghost Map - Steven Johnson, Alan Sklar
The Ghost Map - Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map - Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map [With Earbuds] (Audio) - Steven Johnson, Alan Sklar
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Steven Johnson, Alan Sklar
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Steven Johnson, Alan Sklar
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Steven Johnson, Alan Sklar
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks - Steven Johnson
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