The ghost map : the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world /
"An account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London--and an exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease in cities. In the summer of 1854, a devastating cholera outbreak seized London just as it was emerging as a modern city: more than...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2006.
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Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book (Internet Archive account required) |
Table of 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.