How the "ghost map" helped end a killer disease

Name: How the "ghost map" helped end a killer disease
Uploaded: 2007-01-31T00:11:00Z
Duration: 9 min 50 s
Description: 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.

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Steven Johnson |

TEDSalon 2006

• November 2006

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.