The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

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Title: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Riverhead
Year: 2006
299 pages

I know I took notes on this, but I can't locate them. Johnson methodically describes the discovery of cholera, picking apart the truth and reality of Whitehead and Snow's contributions, as well as describing the context (sometimes at the broad historical level, sometimes house by house). Johnson unbalances the book's focus and proportions in his attention to bigger themes, some not as closely associated with cholera as one might wish. Johnson ought to have saved these musings for a separate book.