19th century London is widely considered to be the first such concrete fatality, in more ways than one, when the dreaded killer that is cholera struck the Soho area of the world’s most progressive city in 1854, consuming over seven hundred lives in a mere week-and-a-half. Miasma – a fuzzily construed toxic mist with an obnoxious stench – was the causal factor as believed by health authorities of the period, due to the truckloads of filth and muck teeming at every place except where it should have, from residential culverts and courtyards to neighbourhood gutters and water wells. In The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, author Steven Johnson sets out to chronicle the sequence of events leading to the crazed outbreak of the cholera epidemic at the time, and how a duo’s relentless scrutiny of affairs resulted in an epic stride for the branch of research we now know as epidemiology – the study of epidemics.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006
An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
Rashmi Bansal Publisher of JAMMAG magazine caught red-handed, for details click on the following links.
