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Cholera, chloroform, and the science of medicine : a life of John Snow / Peter Vinten-Johansen ... [and others].
Van Pelt Library RA649.5.S66 S647 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Snow, John, 1813-1858.
- Snow, John.
- Epidemiologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Epidemiologists.
- Anesthesiologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Anesthesiologists.
- Epidemiology.
- United Kingdom.
- Great Britain.
- Anesthesiology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Epidemiology.
- United Kingdom.
- Anesthesiology.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 York and Newcastle, 1813-1833 14
- Chapter 2 Senior Apprentice and Assitant, 1830-1836 39
- Chapter 3 London Medical and Surgical Training, 1836-1838 56
- Chapter 4 Forging a London Career, 1838-1846 81
- Chapter 5 Ether 110
- Chapter 6 Chloroform 140
- Chapter 7 Cholera Theories: Controversy and Confusion 165
- Chapter 8 Snow's Cholera Theory 199
- Chapter 9 Professional Success 231
- Chapter 10 Cholera and Metropolitan Water Supply 254
- Chapter 11 Broad Street 283
- Chapter 12 Snow and the Mapping of Cholera Epidemics 318
- Chapter 13 Snow and the Sanitarians 340
- Chapter 14 Further Developments in Anesthesia 359
- Chapter 15 Common Ground: Continuous Molecular Changes 372
- Chapter 16 Snow's Multiple Legacies 388.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-420) and index.
- ISBN:
- 019513544X
- OCLC:
- 50410133
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