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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Johnson, Steven. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.

Why this matters here

Johnson's history of John Snow and the London cholera outbreak follows how street-level evidence challenged prevailing explanations. The chapter cites that reconstruction when considering systems that make overlooked patterns visible.