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Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World By Steven Johnson 320 Pages. Riverhead Trade. $15.00.
Ghost Map
by Steven Johnson
“Johnson turns this into a gripping detective story.”
Nothing has saved more lives than statistics. Modern medicine gets its power from double-blind clinical trials that allows us to overcome anecdote, superstition, and human bias and let the numbers tell us what really works. One of the first examples of this was how a doctor figured out how cholera was spreading in 19th-century London, by plotting cases on a map and seeing a well at the center. Johnson turns this into a gripping detective story.
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Chris Anderson is editor in chief of Wired Magazine and the author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More and the new Free: The Future of a Radical Price. He was previously at The Economist and before that in the world of science, starting in physics and ending at the science journals Nature and Science.
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