Dana Triplett March 1‚ 2013 Steven Johnson‚ The Ghost Map. New York‚ Penguin‚ 2006. The expansive growth of industrial London awakens an epidemic that seems to kill indiscriminately. Cholera is a disease that had no discernible cause‚ much less a cure‚ during the nineteenth century. People are dying regardless of their social class or living conditions. Looking for a method to the madness that is cholera‚ Doctor John Snow begins a quest to investigate the spread of the disease throughout a neighborhood
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Cited: Johnson‚ Steven. The Ghost Map. New York City: Penguin Group USA Inc. ‚ 2006.
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Mainly‚ Johnson wrote this book to prove that one week in 1954 was one of the defining moments in what people today know as modern life. First‚ he proved that the first fateful week of September ultimately influenced the way cities organized themselves. Second‚ he proved that the events of the Broad Street Outbreak changed how disease was studied and viewed. Third‚ he proved that urban intelligence could come to understand a massive health crisis of which most people refused to see the truth. Ultimately
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Stephen Johnson’s The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science‚ Cities‚ and the Modern World‚ is a nonfiction book that examines the cholera outbreak that occurred in the late summer of 1854 in London‚ England. At that time‚ London was the largest city that the world had seen‚ with a population of around two and a half million. It was the size of many modern cities but didn’t share any of the infrastructure that are so vital to larger cities‚ like clean
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Summary The Ghost Map was a historical piece of literature that was used to explain the V. cholera epidemic in London. The book‚ written by Steven Johnson‚ tells about how the water and the lack of proper sewage systems lead to a disease that killed many citizens and lead to panic for Londoners. Dr. John Snow‚ an anesthesiologist‚ began to research what played a role in the deaths and how it could be cured and stopped. He discovered that the disease was a waterborne disease after a series of
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Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map is a detailed description of the cholera epidemic in 1864‚ but the more interesting part of the book is how Dr. John Snow and Rev. Henry Whitehead’s different ideas merge to solve the mystery of the source of the illness. Although as Johnson makes clear in the early pages of his novel‚ it is not really a mystery when you consider the sanitation issues they were facing in mid-nineteenth century London. Johnson describes how two men from different fields with different
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Ghost Map Reflection Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map is a national bestseller about Cholera epidemic that happened in London‚ and how it completely changed glob view of urbanization. The book follows Dr. John Snow as he find the source of the outbreak and ultimately changed 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. His discovery was that the cholera come from contaminated
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London’s Cholera Epidemic As explained in The Ghost Map by Steve Johnson‚ during the 1850’s in London‚ there was a devastating cholera epidemic. At the time no one really knew what cholera was. All anyone was able to do was panic and make up theories. What they did know about cholera was just what they witnessed. Citizens would see their loved ones have severe cases of almost clear diarrhea with white specks‚ referred to as rice stool‚ and then die within days or even hours. John Snow and
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The Ghost Map Cholera is a disease that started to show up around the 19th century. It is thought that Cholera made its way out of Asia by the British who colonized there. Outbreaks of the illness where common among towns due to urbanization. These outbreaks were happening in cities because of the low hygiene and poor sewer management. The city of London was common victim of these outbreaks. In 1854‚ one particular outbreak occurred‚ in a wealthy neighborhood‚ that sparked the curiosity of a man
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The title of the book I have selected for critical reading is “The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson”. The author Steven Johnson has specialized in unraveling the stories that occur in the intersection of science‚ technology‚ and personal experiences. His ideas have had a major influence in countries as diverse as the use of The Internet in political campaigns fields‚ urban structuring vanguard or the struggle of the 21st century. How important was the investigation for the sustenance of the concept of
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