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    <body><![CDATA[This was an excellent account of the (successful) efforts of two men, John Snow and Henry Whitehead, to understand the means by which cholera is transmitted, following an 1854 outbreak in London's Soho district. The &quot;ghost map&quot; constructed by Snow, and the identification of the index case ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4215393">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I can pretty say that this book by Steven Johnson isn't going to be for everybody. It tells the story of how several men tried to cope with and understand a massive outbreak of cholera in London during 1854. Yeah, riveting, right?<br/><br/>Actually, it was. In addition to talking about the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28988319">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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