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| The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks | 
 enlarge | Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
List Price: £8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 46895
Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0141029366
EAN: 9780141029368
ASIN: 0141029366
Publication Date: January 31, 2008
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 Brilliant May 18, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A really well detailed account, and interesting history of the battle with Cholera by Dr. Snow and his colleagues in Victorian London. Anyone who is considering a profession in health care or studying medicine at university, i strongly recommend this book. It manages to portray health care at the time of the epedemic with plenty of background knowledge and scientific reasoning which makes it insteresting and very informative.
 Interesting but overlong April 16, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read this after it was recommended on Radio 4's book club, and thought that it was generally pretty good. It was obviously well researched and the writing was engaging. My only complaint was that the story did not have enough substance to justify a book that is couple of hundred pages long. Initially, I really enjoyed the book, with its evocative descriptions of Victorian London - night soil men and all. However, the author soon began repeating himself and labouring certain points (I lose count of how many times he stated that Dr Snow and Rev Whitehead were mutually dependent on each other when it came to solving the problem of how cholera is transmitted - but it felt like too many!) My overall impression was that this story would have made a good article, but that it had insufficient depth to require a book of this length.
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