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

4.0

This was an excellent read. The author intertwines the story of the 1954 London cholera outbreak with the the development of public health and epidemiology. He brilliantly combines the importanceance if diversity in approaches, critical analysis of evidence, and building of cumulative knowledge in responding to crises and facilitating scientific advances. While the majority of the book is unbelievably cohesive, I did feel like the epilogue was overreaching and detracted from the an otherwise impressive story