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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic and How it Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science and the Mode - Hardcover

Johnson, Steven

 
9781594489259: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic and How it Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science and the Mode

Synopsis

A historical 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. 80,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Steven Johnson is the author of the national bestsellers Everything Bad Is Good for You and Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, as well as Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software and Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate.

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