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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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by Steven Johnson


  Malaria

  Manufacturing, London

  Mapping systems, urban

  Maps

  of cholera outbreak

  and future epidemics

  local knowledge

  Snow’s, originality of

  Margulis, Lynn

  Marx, Karl

  Mass behavior

  Mass communication, in Victorian-era London

  Mayfair (London district)

  Mayhew, Henry

  London Labour and the London Poor

  and miasma theory

  Morning Chronicle article

  and waste recycling

  Medical education, in nineteenth century

  Medicine, in Victorian era

  and cholera

  scientific method and

  surgery

  Megacities

  Mekalanos, John

  Methane gas

  explosions

  Metropolitan Commission of Sewers

  and cholera outbreak

  Metropolitan life. See Urban life; Urbanization

  Mexico City

  Miasma theory of cholera spread

  biological basis

  Board of Health and

  and Broad Street pump

  Chadwick and

  confirmation bias

  Farr and

  Hall and

  maps and

  power of

  Snow and

  social prejudice and

  Vestry Committee and

  Microbes. See Bacteria

  Microscopes

  Middlemarch (Eliot)

  Middlesex Hospital (London)

  Moore’s Law

  Morning Chronicle (London)

  and Chadwick

  Mayhew article

  Morton, William

  Mozart, Leopold

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  Mud-larks

  Mumbai, Squatter Colony

  Nash, John

  Native Americans, and alcohol

  Nausea

  Neighborhoods, street-level knowledge

  Netherlands, waste recycling and

  Neuwirth, Robert

  New River Water Company

  New York City

  cholera outbreak

  311 service

  911 system

  New York Evening Post

  Newspapers, in Victorian-era London

  and cholera outbreaks

  and medicine

  See also specific newspapers

  Newton, Isaac

  Newton, John Frank

  Niche environments, in cities

  Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens)

  Night soil, and night-soil men

  Nightingale, Florence

  and miasma theory

  9/11 attacks

  Nonrenewable energy, urbanization and

  Notes on Nursing (Nightingale)

  Nuclear weapons

  Nuisances Removal and Contagious Diseases Prevention Act

  Obituary of Snow

  Observer (London)

  and cholera deaths

  Offensive trades

  Old Ford reservoir

  On Air, Water, and Places (Hippocrates)

  On the Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether in Surgical Operations (Snow)

  On the Mode and Communication of Cholera (Snow)

  Opium

  Our Mutual Friend (Dickens)

  Owen, David

  Pacini, Filippo

  Pain management, Snow and

  Pandemic, global

  Paris, in nineteenth century

  Parliament

  Farr’s testimony

  Snow and

  Thames pollution and

  Pasteur, Louis

  Patent medicines

  Penny Newsman (London)

  Pepys, Samuel

  Percussion caps

  Perpendadores

  Pesthouse fields

  Peter Street, cholera outbreak

  Pets, in Victorian-era London

  Phase transitions, human societies and

  Phillips, Richard

  Phrenology

  Physicians, in Victorian era

  Snow as physician

  and treatment of cholera

  Plague, government intervention and

  Plague burial grounds

  Poland Street (Soho), cholera deaths

  Poland Street Workhouse

  Politics, network technology and

  Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834

  Population Bomb, The (Ehrlich)

  Population control, cities and

  Population density

  and disease

  and environment

  perils of

  and transmission of cholera

  urbanization and

  in Victorian-era London

  Populations

  growth of

  London, 1800s

  statistics

  urban

  Portland (Oregon)

  Postal service, London

  Posttraumatic stress disorder

  Poverty

  in developed world

  in Victorian-era London

  “Predisposing” causes of disease

  Prelude, The (Wordsworth)

  Price gouging by drug companies

  Progress, intellectual

  Prokaryotes

  ProMED-mail

  Proust, Marcel

  Public health

  Chadwick and

  cities and

  information networks

  institutions, future of

  statistics, Farr and

  Public Health Act of 1848

  Public infrastructure engineering

  Pump

  Broad Street. See Broad Street pump

  Punch

  “Who Shall Decide When Doctors Disagree?”

  Pure

  Pure-finders

  Quack cures

  Radcliffe, John Netten

  Railway system

  Rakers

  Reason, and superstition

  Recycling of waste

  Mayhew and

  Regent Street (London)

  Registrar-General’s Office

  Religion, miasma theory and

  Research, medical, in Victorian era

  Snow and

  Return to Nature: A Defence of the Vegetable Regimen, The (Newton)

  Richard the Raker

  Richardson, Benjamin Ward

  Richardson, James

  Rio de Janeiro, Rocinha area

  Robinson, James

  Rogers, John

  Rogers, Richard

  Rogers, William

  Rome

  medieval, building materials for

  Rumor, and cholera outbreak

  Rural areas

  St. Bartholomew’s Hospital

  St. James’ Parish, and cholera outbreak

  Board of Governors

  Vestry Committee

  St. James Workhouse

  St. Luke’s Church (Berwick Street)

  Sanitary conditions

  and cholera

  Sanitation, Chadwick and

  Scavenger classes

  in developing countries

  in Victorian-era London

  Scientific establishment, and waterborne theory

  Scientific method, Victorian-era medicine and

  Sedgwick’s Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health

  Sewer-hunters

  miasma theory and

  Sewer system, London

  construction of

  investigation of

  Broad Street

  Shadow Cities (Neuwirth)

  Shantytown developments

  Shelley, Percy

  Slingshot water purifier

  Small intestine, cholera and

  Smell

  as disease

  Snow and

  sense of

  in Victorian-era London

  Smith, Angus

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  and anesthetics

  attacks on

  and Broad Street outbreak

  cause of epidemic

  grand experiment

  map of

  sociological evidence

  and cholera

  consilient thinking

  death of

  and Epidemiological Society

  Farr and

  information resources

  The Lancet and

  and miasma theory

  reasoning style

  scientific studies

  and water companies

  waterborne theory

  opponents of

  Whitehead and

  Social prejudice

  and miasma theory

  Socioeconomic element in cholera outbreak

  Sociologist, Snow as

  Soho (London district)

  cholera epidemic

  newspapers and

  in Victorian era

  See also Broad Street (Soho); Golden Square (Soho); London; specific sites

  Soho Field

  Soho Square

  Soil fertility, waste recycling and

  South America, cholera outbreaks

  South London Water Works

  Southwark and Vauxhall (S&V) water company

  Sproat, William

  Squatter cities

  Standage, Tom

  Statistics of public health, Farr and

  Street-level knowledge, Snow’s map and

  Subcultures, in cities

  Suburbs

  Suicide bombers

  Superstition

  Surgeons, in nineteenth-century London

  Surgery, in Victorian era

  Surrey building (Horsleydown), cholera outbreak

  Sutherland, John

  Sydenham, Thomas

  Tanning of leather

  Tea

  Technology

  of density

  and urbanization

  Telecommuting

  Terrorism

  biological

  9/11 attack

  population density and

  Thames River

  pollution of

  sewer system and

  Theories, incorrect, support of

  “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (Benjamin)

  Third World, population control

  Threats, intolerable

  311 service, New York City

  Times, The (London). See London Times

  Toilets and water closets

  Toshers

  Towns

  medieval, waste recycling in

  Transgenic shifts

  Tropical rain forests

  Truscott’s Court (Horsleydown)

  Tufte, Edward

  The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

  Visual Explanations

  Twin Towers, population density

  Underclass, in Victorian-era London

  United Nations, Global Report on Human Settlements

  University College Hospital (London)

  Unsanitary conditions, deaths from

  Urban density. See Population density

  Urban life

  in developing world

  flow of ideas

  See also Cities; Inner-city air, as disease source; Inner-city life, in Victorian era; Towns

  Urban mapping systems

  Urbanism, Broad Street cholera outbreak and

  Urbanization

  benefits of

  Industrial Revolution and

  pandemics and

  threats of

  Vaccines, production of

  Vegetarian, Snow as

  Vestry Committee. See St. James’ Parish, and cholera outbreak

  Vibrio cholerae (cholera bacterium)

  battle against

  in Broad Street well

  “El Tor” strain

  transmission route

  Victoria, Queen of England

  childbirth

  Victorian novels, and children

  Viral phages (cholera)

  Viruses

  evolution of

  genetic swaps

  Visual Display of Quantitative Information, The (Tufte)

  Visual Explanations (Tufte)

  Voronoi diagrams

  Wages of night-soil men

  Wagner, Richard

  Waldor, Matthew K.

  Warfare, asymmetric. See Asymmetric warfare

  Warren, John Collins

  Waste disposal

  London

  in Victorian era

  recycling

  Waste management

  Water

  clean

  search for

  contaminated

  as cure for cholera

  Water closets

  Water purifiers

  Water supply

  and air quality

  London

  Board of Health and

  Broad Street

  sanitary

  Waterborne theory of cholera spread

  acceptance of

  Board of Health and

  evidence for

  experiment

  Farr and

  official endorsement

  supporters

  Vestry Committee and

  Whitehead and

  Weather, and disease, theories

  Weekly Returns of Birth and Deaths (Farr)

  and “Great Stink”

  and waterborne theory

  Westminster Hospital

  Westminster Medical Society

  Whewell, William

  Whitehead, Henry

  The Cholera in Berwick Street

  and cholera outbreak

  investigation of

  local knowledge

  and Snow

  and theories of cholera spread

  waterborne theory

  Wilson, E. O.

  Wordsworth, William

  Workhouses, in Victorian era

  World Trade Center, population density

  World Wide Web, and information

  Yahoo!

  York (surveyor)

  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  Courtesy Illustrated London News.

  Courtesy General Research Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.

  Courtesy Ralph R. Frerichs, UCLA Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html.

 

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