The Ghost Map

Steven Johnson has written eleven best-selling books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Wonderland, and Extra Life. He hosts and co-created the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got To Now, as well as the podcast American Innovations. His wife and three sons live in Brooklyn and Marin County, California.

It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the world's first modern cities. However, due to a lack of infrastructure—garbage collection, clean water, and sewers—necessary to support its rapidly growing population, the city has become the ideal breeding ground for a terrifying disease that no one knows how to cure. As the cholera outbreak spreads, a doctor and a local priest are spurred to action—and eventually solve the most pressing medical mystery of their time.

In The Ghost Map, Johnson illuminates the intertwined histories of disease spread, city rise, and the nature of scientific inquiry in a triumph of multidisciplinary thinking, offering both a riveting history and a powerful explanation of how it has shaped the world we live in.

Steven Johnson presents us with history at its best: colorful, interconnected, and compelling. At its heart is a medical mystery, or what is now known as an epidemiological detective story... A historical writing masterpiece. The Ghost Map tells the story of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak and features John Snow, the father of field epidemiology. If you want to learn more about the most severe cholera outbreak in Victorian London and the role of community in the evolution of epidemiology, you should read this book right away.

Author: Steven Johnson

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Spillover-Animal-Infections-Human-Pandemic-ebook/dp/B00856PC4K/

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