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Steven Johnson The Ghost Map

A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.

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Penguin Books Ltd

UK

2008

Paperback

320

Standard

314032

978-0-14-102936-8

0-14-102936-6

History of medicine

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Tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead - who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific research and map-making.

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