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How the "ghost map" helped end a killer disease

Steven Johnson · TED

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About

Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on science, cities and modern society.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDSalon 2006
Speaker
Steven Johnson
Year
2006
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Society and politics, History, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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