Cholera

religion during the first outbreak in 1832, the cholera outbreak seemed to strengthen people’s belief in God. The book states, “Too many ordinary householders, it was a consequence of sin; man had infringed upon the laws of God and cholera was an inevitable and inescapable judgment” (40). During this time, there were many non-believers and many Christians who were sinners. Doctors supported an idea that proposed that those who were affected by cholera were either sinners or poor. In this age,…

science aurthorauthor. In the book, the author explains to us why urban planning is necessary to prevent deadly diseases, such as the deadly cholera outbreak. This book is a chronicle about an event that began on August 28, 1854, on Broad Street. A five-month-old infant named Frances Lewis, had developed diarrhea and exhaustion, which were both symptoms of cholera. Dr.William Rogers had taken care her, but she died within a few days. It was established that he mother of the infant, Sarah…

During the twenty-first century, Haiti has sustained many disasters. However, some of the more recent disasters include: Hurricane Jeanne in 2004, fatal flooding in 2008, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010, a cholera outbreak in 2010, Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Hurricane Matthew in 2016, and a cholera outbreak in 2016. On September 16, 2004, Category 1 Hurricane Jeanne reached the Hispaniola Islands with wind speeds of eighty miles per hour, and killed thousands of citizens in Haiti as part of a…

Imagine being sick to your stomach every second of every hour of every day. Imagine feeling dehydrated and going to get a drink, just to puke it up a few minutes later. That’s what cholera feels like, except much, much worse. Africa is suffering from this disease, and they can’t do anything about it. We need to help them. People in Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and many other countries in Africa are suffering from this disease, and they have nothing they can do because they don’t have the technology…

The Ghost Map, written by Steven Johnson, is a nonfiction book centered on a Vibrio cholera bacterium- also called cholera- outbreak in London in eighteen fifty-four. Tellingly enough, the central theme of The Ghost Map is Illness, Death, and the Unknown; with strong underlying themes of the Scientific Process and Urban Growth and Planning, along with weaker undertones of Class Prejudice. Setting up the rest of the book is the main purpose of the first chapter, introducing how unsanitary…

In 1854, Dr. John Snow, devised a map of the London Cholera outbreak. He was known to be one of the founding fathers of epidemiology. During that time period, many civilians were dying quickly and rapidly from Cholera (Frerichs). Dr. John Snow suspected the containment was coming from a well known area like a water pump. Snow obtained data of where the individuals lived and the location of the water pumps and mapped the outcome (Frerichs). The map has many different aspects.First, I will…

instance, in the book The Ghost Map by Stephen Johnson, the majority of people living in that era were uninformed about the disease, cholera. People were in mass hysteria because they thought that the disease was caused by an odorless miasma. This caused thousands of citizens to die because not only did they not know cleanliness methods, but they did not even know what cholera was. In Tobias Raupach’s journal article, he displays the results of two medical schools that completed a quiz, which…

In the field of global health, a consensus has been reached that we can no longer analyze public health issues through a purely biomedical lens, but must incorporate a wide range of other dimensions, such as political, economic, social, and environmental aspects. All these dimensions converge together to form particular places of health that influence disease exposure and transmission. King asserts that a political ecology framework applied to health provides insight into “how health is situated…

compelling account of how London’s 1854 cholera epidemic shaped the field of epidemiology and profoundly impacted our understanding of cities and disease. The diligent and remarkably multidisciplinary work of physician John Snow and curate Henry Whitehead proved that scientific methods of investigation could be applied to medicine and human populations to solve problems in society, on both local and government-wide levels. After tracing all cases of cholera in the outbreak directly back to…

Ways of Knowing How do we know what we know? This is the main theme of the book, Ways of Knowing. This book can almost be seen as a toolbox for Social and Political Scientists, giving them different tools to help with research. Not every research requires the same tools. The book is divided in two sections, the naturalist method and the constructivist method. The first section discuss the history and application of the naturalist method. The historical portion of this section discusses…