Interpretive Studies

No scholarly work is definitive since scholarship is an on-going process, ideally conducted in a spirit of collaboration and the free exchange of ideas. This portion of the John Snow Archive and Research Companion features interpretive studies of Snow and his contemporaries that supplement the argument and material presented in Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine. We will consider, and post, any scholarly study, including those that challenge arguments in our biography.

John Snow

• Benjamin W. Richardson, "The Life of John Snow, M.D." Richardson placed this biographical essay at the front of On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics.
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• Howard Brody, "Cholera in 1849 and the Biopsychosocial Model: Historical Analysis or Anachronism?".
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• Peter Vinten-Johansen, David Zuck, "1847--John Snow's annus mirabilis, year of consilience." Keynote lecture at the 12th annual spring meeting of the Anesthesia History Association, Birmingham, Alabama.
  
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John Snow's Contemporaries

• Alastair Johnson, "John Snow and Thomas Giordani Wright: Medical Apprentices in Newcastle upon Tyne." The editor of Diary of a Doctor. Surgeon's Assistant in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1826-1829 compares Wright's account with what Snow, who left no diary, might have experienced in the same town.
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Other Complementary Topics

• Dave Boylan, "Finding Baby Lewis." A genealogist's search for the full name of the probable index case in the 1854 Golden Square cholera outbreak.
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• Peter Vinten-Johansen, Quick Reference for Apothecary and Chemical Weights and Measures .
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