The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by Steven Johnson
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Author: Steven JohnsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2007-10-02
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Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
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Book Review: Read this book and you'll have a new-found appreciation for toilets, clean water and water treatment plants
Summary: 5 Stars
This book should make you appreciate how far public health and sanitation have come in the past 150 years. Did you know, most of modern society's gains in life expectancy precede major medical breakthroughs like antibiotics? You can thank improvements in water, sanitation and housing. This book highlights the inviolable fact that preventing someone else's poop from entering your mouth is a good thing. Thank God and John Snow for water treatment plants.
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