| Titre : | Crediting his critics'concerns : Remaking John Snow's map of Broad Street cholera, 1854. (2009) |
| Auteurs : | Tom KOCH ; Kenneth DENIKE |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 69, n° 8, 2009) |
| Pagination : | 1246-1251 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Epidémiologie ; 19 siècle ; Carte ; Choléra ; Histoire ; Méthodologie ; Homme ; Bactériose ; Infection |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS rmop9R0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Few cases in the history of epidemiology and public health are more famous than John Snow's investigation of a neighborhood cholera outbreak in the St. James, Westminster, area of London in 1854. In this study Snow is assumed to have proven that cholera was water rather than airborne through a methodology that became, and to a great extent remains, central to the science and social science of disease studies. And yet, Snow's work did not satisfy most of his contemporaries who considered his proof of a solely waterborne cholera interesting but unconvincing. Uniquely, this paper asks whether the caution of Snow's contemporaries was reasonable, and secondly, whether Snow might have been more convincing within the science of the day. The answers significantly alter our understanding of this paradigmatic case. It does so in a manner offering insights both into the origins of nineteenth century disease analysis and more generally, the relation of mapping in the investigation of an outbreak of uncertain origin. The result has general relevance-pedagogically and practically-in epidemiology, medical geography, and public health. |
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