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The Ghost Map
by Steven Johnson
London's 1854 cholera outbreak and how John Snow and Henry Whitehead mapped it to a pump, founding epidemiology. Gripping urban science history.
Read it if…
you want a detective story that saved cities.
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Skip it if…
you want modern public health.
Try instead: The Invention of Air →
Three things you will actually use
- Map the data.
- Challenge the theory.
- Cities need science.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the map.
Our verdict
Snow's pump.
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