Citizens Read: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

With Guest Speaker Molly Franks, MPH, Health Educator in the STD/HIV & Hepatitis C Program at the Multnomah County Health Department

In conjunction with The Multnomah County Library and OMSI, Citizens Read will be reading The Ghost Map. The book, set in the 1854 cholera epidemic in Victorian London, tells the story of the innovative and brilliant scientist Dr. John Snow, who risked his life to create a map that demonstrated how cholera spread. With the creation of this map, he proved his theories about contagious diseases and changed the way physicians and public health officials thought about and dealt with the spread of diseases and epidemics. This book is not only highly relevant (think H1N1), but an immensely good read.

Steven Johnson is the author of several bestsellers, all having to do with the impact of science on our lives. He also writes for several national magazines and newspapers and is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.

For more information see: http://www.multcolib.org/reads/.

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