A review by doubleohelix
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

2.0

The author tended to wander in his narrative and at times made a fascinating subject seem positively tedious. I liked the breadth of the research but it also drew focus away from the epidemic itself by focusing so much attention on the older theories that prevailed before then.