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Miguel Del Toral
John Snow was a 19th-century physician and scientist who became “the founding father of public health” in 1854, when he used revolutionary mapping techniques to locate, track, and contain a cholera outbreak in his London neighborhood of Soho. Snow’s research was controversial at the time because many people thought that cholera was spread by breathing in stagnant air. But Snow’s determination allowed him to track the source of the outbreak to a contaminated water pump, and his research saved many lives. Centuries later, his legacy inspired Mona to use geographic information systems software to pinpoint the locations of homes most severely affected by leaded water during the Flint water crisis.
John Snow Quotes in What the Eyes Don’t See
The What the Eyes Don’t See quotes below are all either spoken by John Snow or refer to John Snow. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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If it weren’t for Snow’s science, stubbornness, persistence, and passion for the truth, cholera might have raged on for another decade or more, taking thousands or even millions of lives.
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Urban poverty is less lethal now, but in some respects, nothing has really changed. The environments of the cities we live in—their dirt and air, their violence and hopelessness and stress, their water—can still predict how long a life we will have.
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John Snow Quotes in What the Eyes Don’t See
The What the Eyes Don’t See quotes below are all either spoken by John Snow or refer to John Snow. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7
Quotes
If it weren’t for Snow’s science, stubbornness, persistence, and passion for the truth, cholera might have raged on for another decade or more, taking thousands or even millions of lives.
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Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Urban poverty is less lethal now, but in some respects, nothing has really changed. The environments of the cities we live in—their dirt and air, their violence and hopelessness and stress, their water—can still predict how long a life we will have.
Related Characters:
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