I. Author
Steven Berlin Johnson wrote The Ghost Map in 2006. Johnson attended Columbia and Brown University. He is the cofounder and editor-in-chief of FEED web magazine where science, technology, and personal experiences, and culture are all intertwined (Steven Johnson - stevenberlinjohnson.com). In addition to contributing to FEED, Johnson is also the cofounder of Patch, another website that relates online conversations to neighborhoods in the real-world. In addition to web magazines, he has written Emergence, Everything Bad is Good for You, and Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Steven Johnson).
II. Summary
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson takes readers through the streets and lives of London filled with the cholera …show more content…
Observer, 1854. Johnson, 83, 109.
Secondary:
1. Koch, Tom, Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, 2005. Johnson, 260.
2. Sedgwick, W. T., Principles of Sanitary Science and the Public Health with Special Reference to the Causation and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, 1902. Johnson, 194.
3. Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor, 1985. Johnson, 2-5, 9, 125, 260.
VI. Evidence
1. Chapter one, “The Night-Soil Men” takes the readers through the cesspools of London. Johnson explains the unsanitary living conditions of London in 1854 and harsh working conditions that bone-pickers, rag-gatherers, pure-finders, dredgermen, mud-larks, sewer-hunters, dustmen, night-soil men, bunters, and shoremen had to deal with (Johnson, 1). These workers were put into the harshest, most unsanitary working …show more content…
Granted the people at the time in London did not know their working and living conditions were unsanitary, Johnson claims that sanitation is out of sight and should be fixed.
b. Johnson uses Henry Mayhew’s work London Labour and the London Poor (1844) to discuss the horrific conditions that bone-pickers went through in their daily journey in their job. Johnson, page 2.
2. In chapter three, Johnson opens with the streets of Soho being more quiet than usual due to the knowledge of the cholera outbreak spreading. Johnson continues to explain that Snow and Whitehead both studied how the Broad Street Water Pump could have been contaminating people. Snow studied in a lab, while Whitehead experimented by drinking the water. The theory of the spread of disease changed from air-bourne to water-bourne.
a. In this section, Johnson claims that the water is the source of the cholera epidemic.
b. Snow’s On the Mode and Communication of Cholera (1849) supports this mini-thesis when Snow claims that the water source caused cholera. Johnson, page
Steven Berlin Johnson wrote The Ghost Map in 2006. Johnson attended Columbia and Brown University. He is the cofounder and editor-in-chief of FEED web magazine where science, technology, and personal experiences, and culture are all intertwined (Steven Johnson - stevenberlinjohnson.com). In addition to contributing to FEED, Johnson is also the cofounder of Patch, another website that relates online conversations to neighborhoods in the real-world. In addition to web magazines, he has written Emergence, Everything Bad is Good for You, and Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Steven Johnson).
II. Summary
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson takes readers through the streets and lives of London filled with the cholera …show more content…
Observer, 1854. Johnson, 83, 109.
Secondary:
1. Koch, Tom, Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, 2005. Johnson, 260.
2. Sedgwick, W. T., Principles of Sanitary Science and the Public Health with Special Reference to the Causation and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, 1902. Johnson, 194.
3. Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor, 1985. Johnson, 2-5, 9, 125, 260.
VI. Evidence
1. Chapter one, “The Night-Soil Men” takes the readers through the cesspools of London. Johnson explains the unsanitary living conditions of London in 1854 and harsh working conditions that bone-pickers, rag-gatherers, pure-finders, dredgermen, mud-larks, sewer-hunters, dustmen, night-soil men, bunters, and shoremen had to deal with (Johnson, 1). These workers were put into the harshest, most unsanitary working …show more content…
Granted the people at the time in London did not know their working and living conditions were unsanitary, Johnson claims that sanitation is out of sight and should be fixed.
b. Johnson uses Henry Mayhew’s work London Labour and the London Poor (1844) to discuss the horrific conditions that bone-pickers went through in their daily journey in their job. Johnson, page 2.
2. In chapter three, Johnson opens with the streets of Soho being more quiet than usual due to the knowledge of the cholera outbreak spreading. Johnson continues to explain that Snow and Whitehead both studied how the Broad Street Water Pump could have been contaminating people. Snow studied in a lab, while Whitehead experimented by drinking the water. The theory of the spread of disease changed from air-bourne to water-bourne.
a. In this section, Johnson claims that the water is the source of the cholera epidemic.
b. Snow’s On the Mode and Communication of Cholera (1849) supports this mini-thesis when Snow claims that the water source caused cholera. Johnson, page