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McLeod, Kari Suzanne.

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Melting snow: A re-examination of Dr. John Snow, his dot-map and the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak (England).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Melting snow: A re-examination of Dr. John Snow, his dot-map and the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak (England)./
Author:	McLeod, Kari Suzanne.
Description:	189 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 37-02, page: 0459.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International37-02.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MQ32371
ISBN:	0612323714

Melting snow: A re-examination of Dr. John Snow, his dot-map and the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak (England).
McLeod, Kari Suzanne.

Melting snow: A re-examination of Dr. John Snow, his dot-map and the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak (England). - 189 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 37-02, page: 0459.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University (Canada), 1998.

The mythical story of John Snow and the Broad Street outbreak is common in medical geography, epidemiology, and the history of medicine. In 1854, Snow identified the source of the cholera outbreak in Golden Square (in present-day Soho) as the Broad Street pump, possibly with a dot-map of cholera deaths, and successfully argued for the removal of the pump's handle. Many accounts state that this action ended the outbreak. In all three disciplines, Snow is presented as a hero because he showed how cholera is transmitted, because his ideas affected public health policy, and because he provided definitive proof of a hypothesis. For medical geography, Snow's heroic reputation is related to his determinative use of a dot-map, and many authors feature the map in their presentations of the story. However, the twentieth-century versions of this map can be quite different from one another. This thesis re-examines the myth of John Snow, his dot-map, and the 1854 Broad Street outbreak--informed by archival research--and challenges the taken-for-granted repetition of the story in the three disciplines. The process of retelling the story encourages future investigation of the meaning of the myth in disciplinary contexts; of the nature of proof of causation; and of how evidence, argument and authority work in science.

ISBN: 0612323714Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

Melting snow: A re-examination of Dr. John Snow, his dot-map and the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak (England).
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