false <![CDATA[The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256047149m/1022807.jpg 36086 11 A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London-and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world. <br/><br/> From the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E. O. Wilson, and James Gleick, <i>The Ghost Map</i> is a riveting page-turner with a real-life historical hero that brilliantly illuminates the intertwined histories of the spread of viruses, rise of cities, and the nature of scientific inquiry. These are topics that have long obsessed Steven Johnson, and <i>The Ghost Map</i> is a true triumph of the kind of multidisciplinary thinking for which he's become famous-a book that, like the work of Jared Diamond, presents both vivid history and a powerful and provocative explanation of what it means for the world we live in. <br/><br/> <i>The Ghost Map</i> takes place in the summer of 1854. A devastating cholera outbreak seizes London just as it is emerging as a modern city: more than 2 million people packed into a ten-mile circumference, a hub of travel and commerce, teeming with people from all over the world, continually pushing the limits of infrastructure that's outdated as soon as it's updated. Dr. John Snow-whose ideas about contagion had been dismissed by the scientific community-is spurred to intense action when the people in his neighborhood begin dying. With enthralling suspense, Johnson chronicles Snow's day-by-day efforts, as he risks his own life to prove how the epidemic is being spread. <br/><br/> When he creates the map that traces the pattern of outbreak back to its source, Dr. Snow didn't just solve the most pressing medical riddle of his time. He ultimately established a precedent for the way modern city-dwellers, city planners, physicians, and public officials think about the spread of disease and the development of the modern urban environment. <br/><br/> <i>The Ghost Map</i> is an endlessly compelling and utterly gripping account of that London summer of 1854, from the microbial level to the macrourban-theory level-including, most important, the human level. 1008989 19 10 2006 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World total:1949|5:416|4:850|3:575|2:90|1:18| 1949 7403 3593 572 1071180 0713999748 9780713999747 24 11 The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180737894m/1071180.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1071180.The_Ghost_Map_A_Street_an_Epidemic_and_the_Two_Men_Who_Battled_to_Save_Victorian_London 3 14 false Mon Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 14 09:42:23 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 28 13:25:50 -0800 2008 The Ghost Map meanders from its central story -- how an unorthodox physician found the source of a cholera epidemic that swept through London in 1854 -- into a host of other issues. Expecting a more straightforward account of the unraveling of this medical...more...]]> 361356 1400102987 9781400102983 18 7 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174093938m/361356.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/361356.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_And_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 4 11 false Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 18:36:43 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 18:56:11 -0700 2008
This book is about cholera, and as a result, the author uses an impressive number of words for shit--including excrement, ordure, human waste, and the Victorian euphemism night soil. And shit, of course.

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Actually, it was. In addition to talking about the...more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 5 1 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 23 18:23:01 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 18:24:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1022807 1594482691 9781594482694 188 44 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256047149m/1022807.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022807.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 3 2 false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 15 16:23:26 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 27 17:56:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 5 1 false Fri Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 07:47:23 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 09:34:52 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 3 1 false Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 14:04:58 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 16 05:43:56 -0800 2009
Broadwick Street showing the John Snow memorial and pub

Snow 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 form of "bad air". The germ theory was not widely accepted ...more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 4 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 13:27:18 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 13:27:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 3 1 false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 09:32:51 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 17:28:10 -0800 2008 1
i liked the way the author interspersed quotations from dickens and other authors of the time in additio...more...]]> 1022807 1594482691 9781594482694 188 44 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256047149m/1022807.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022807.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 4 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 05 17:44:45 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 14 13:48:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 3 1 false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 20:37:56 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 23:08:16 -0800 2009 But overall a good read. And informative as ...more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 4 1 false Wed Mar 04 10:00:02 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 16 14:39:52 -0700 2009
A very nicely written, thought-provoking book. Got me thinking as much about the manner in which we do science as about what the science tells us, or can tell us. A lot of thinking rolled int...more...]]> 1071180 0713999748 9780713999747 24 11 The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180737894m/1071180.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1071180.The_Ghost_Map_A_Street_an_Epidemic_and_the_Two_Men_Who_Battled_to_Save_Victorian_London 3 3 false Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 29 18:21:10 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 24 19:09:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 4 0 false Sun Feb 01 12:00:37 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 12:26:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 3 0 false Wed Dec 10 09:15:49 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 09:33:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 0 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 04:10:37 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 04:10:37 -0800 2008
T...more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 3 0 false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 19:36:38 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 19:47:50 -0700 2009 A physician named John Snow studied where the sick lived vs where the uninfected lived, deduced the infection was arising from a particular water well, had the pump handle of the well removed and thereby stopped the epidemic and began ...more...]]> 36086 1594489254 9781594489259 1690 500 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36086.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map_The_Story_of_London_s_Most_Terrifying_Epidemic_and_How_It_Changed_Science_Cities_and_the_Modern_World 4 8 false Mon Jul 20 21:00:07 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 21:04:08 -0700 2009 The Invention of Air was I hadn’t realised that I had read and enjoyed his Mind Wide Open Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life. Then David and Eric told me to try this one – and they are right, this is a far better book. The things ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1022807