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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
13 reviews
rhi_'s review
3.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Medical content and Classism
jetpackdracula's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Child death
musicalpopcorn's review
3.0
The first two thirds of the book were very interesting. Learning about the cholera outbreak and how Snow traced it to the well, as well as the other facts was fascinating. I particularly enjoyed the brief description of the history of anesthetic.
The epilogue kind of threw me off a bit. It felt almost rambly, and I was struggling to connect all the talk about terrorism and nuclear attacks to cholera and Snow. It was interesting to listen to it post-Covid, given that the book was written well before the pandemic, but it was still very strange.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic
ambaright's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Excrement, and Medical content
Moderate: Child death and Grief
elizafiedler's review
4.0
Graphic: Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Death
Minor: Body horror
the_true_monroe's review
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Death of parent
cj13's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, and Medical content
Moderate: Classism
anntharai's review
3.5
Honestly, I’d suggest avoiding the last section. It takes on an intensely nihilistic tone and literally everything will be bad 😂 oh and he states that cities only have themselves to blame if they’re targeted by terrorists because who could resist such a juicy target and that’s a yikes from me.
The final section has been undone through no fault of its own - time passed and the predictions were not correct.
For example the author says that a flu like pandemic is extremely slim, but If the researchers who think it possible believe that such a thing “could easily rival the 1918 pandemic”, he also overestimates the intelligence of people actually listening to scientists in such a situation.
So overall it’s good, just skip the last chapter which is primarily anxiety inducing rants.
Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma
kalebdluca's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Gaslighting
doitninetimes's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Excrement, and Medical content
Minor: Child death