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IJE Advance Access published online on April 24, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dyn068
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Book Review

The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera. Sandra Hempel.

Stephanie J Snow

E-mail: stephanie.snow@manchester.ac.uk

The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera. Sandra Hempel. University of California Press, 2007, pp. 331, US$24.95, ISBN-10: 0520250494

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John Snow's discovery that water was the main disseminating agent for cholera during the great 19th century epidemics is iconic in the history of epidemiology and Hempel's depiction of Snow as a lone hero battling against ‘the muddled nineteenth-century thinking about epidemic disease’ (p. 290) perpetuates . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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