# How the "ghost map" helped end a killer disease

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_how_the_ghost_map_helped_end_a_killer_disease)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [How the "ghost map" helped end a killer disease](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/steven_johnson_how_the_ghost_map_helped_end_a_killer_disease/923b223e1bf5), 10 min (TED's player)