5/22/2023 0 Comments The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson![]() ![]() The effort to solve the cholera crisis and create better living conditions was truly a communal effort. In this novel, Johnson shows how there was not a single hero in the story of the cholera crisis. In The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson uses two men’s maps to show the connection of rban society, the genesis of an epidemic, and the events leading up to the discovery of the source of cholera. Johnson describes how two men from different fields with different ideas came together to map out the cholera crisis. ![]() Although as Johnson makes clear in the early pages of his novel, it is not really a mystery when you consider the sanitation issues they were facing in mid-nineteenth century London. Henry Whitehead’s different ideas merge to solve the mystery of the source of the illness. Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map is a detailed description of the cholera epidemic in 1864, but the more interesting part of the book is how Dr. ![]()
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